Learning about the canoe traditions of the Fijian, Squamish, and Haida helps us understand the historical and ongoing importance of canoe culture for these Indigenous peoples.

This website presents a range of evidence – photographs, maps, interviews, historical texts and short films – to assist educators and students in understanding the importance of canoes for the Fijian, Squamish, and Haida peoples.

We have interviewed Indigenous artists, canoe makers, and others in order to include their ways of knowing in the historical record. We encourage you to consider multiple points of view, and to question what is historically significant and what evidence is used to determine historical significance.