When his parents were downsizing, my client and his siblings fought over who would get the canoe. He brought it to me to get it back to the way it was when he was a kid.
It had spent most of its life on the ocean, so many of the fasteners had corroded. We recaned the seats and repaired a broken outwale where a tree hit the canoe.
This client's father sold the family canoe without telling anyone. Twenty-five years later, my client met the man who bought their canoe. He bought it back and asked us to make it look like new again. He was thrilled to learn that we could match the original colour and replace the original Chestnut decals.
Bill Greenwood built beautiful canoes at his shop on Mitchell Island in Richmond, BC from 1934 to 1975. This one was pristine and only required a new canvas and some TLC.
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We post the progress on every canoe in the shop as well as some of those completed in the last year or two.
Kettle River Canoes
P.O. Box 2324
695 Central Avenue
Grand Forks, BC V0H 1H0
250-442-0312
Your wooden canoe skims over still, misty water. That's our idea of a reality check.