Meet Mike Elliott

Rebuilding Friendships; One Canoe at a Time

wood-canvas canoe restoration and repair, wooden canoes for sale, canoe repairs in BC, Vancouver Island, Okanagan, Boundary, Kootenays, Peace, Chilchotin, Caribou, Columbia Region, Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Chestnut Canoe, Chestnut Pal, Chestnut Chum, Chestnut Deer, Chestnut Prospector, Chestnut Cruiser, Chestnut Freighter, Chestnut Twoser, Chestnut Ajax, Chestnut Ogilvy, Chestnut Bob Special, Peterborough Canadien, all-wood, cedar-strip, Peterborough Canoe, Peterborough Minetta, Peterborough Cruiser, Peterborough Champlain, Peterborough Cedar Strip Canoe, Peterborough Rib and Batton Canoe, Canadian canoe, Richardson canoe, Bastien Bros. canoe, Faber Canoe, Gros-Louis canoe, Big Chief canoes, Huron canoe, Huron Village canoes, Tremblay canoe, Yaho canoes, Greenwood canoe, Greenwood Prospector, Bill Greenwood built exquisite canoes in Richmond, BC (on Mitchell Island) from 1934 to 1975.  He based his canoe designs on Old Town Canoes in Maine, so his canoes are essentially Maine Guide Canoes -- very stable with wide, flat bottoms -- all trimmed in Phillipine (Luan) mahogany. His shop burned down in 1970 and he lost most of his moulds.  He continued building for five more years with a limited number of models for sale.  Cedar canoes, cedar canvas canoes, how to restore an antique canoe, Bearwood Canoes, Carrying Place Canoes, Chestnut Canoe Company, Island Falls Canoe, North Bay Canoe, Northwoods Canoe Company, Skywoods Canoe Company, Stewart River Boatworks.

Kettle River Canoes

P.O. Box 2324

7480 4th Street

Grand Forks, BC

V0H 1H0

artisan@canoeshop.ca

A Chestnut Pal from Big Lake Ranch, BC (pictured above) is finished and ready to go back home. Two other Chestnut canoes are getting new outwales.

A 16' Chestnut Pal is canvassed and ready for Latex Canoe Canvas Filler (pictured above).  Meanwhile, two Greenwood canoes and an 18' Chestnut Prospector are ready for woodwork repairs.

Apr 23

2014