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Cardboard watercraft teach history lesson

For the past few weeks, native language students at St. David and St. Raphael schools have been learning about the integral role the birch bark canoe played in Ojibway culture and in the fur trade.
Sudbury.com Staff
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St. Raphael native language students Curtis Brown and Anthony Cassondro after the maiden voyage of their cardboard boat. Supplied photo.
For the past few weeks, native language students at St. David and St. Raphael schools have been learning about the integral role the birch bark canoe played in Ojibway culture and in the fur trade.

Now the students have built their own canoes out of cardboard. The two schools met at The Howard Armstrong Center in Hanmer to race against each other in their boat's maiden voyages.
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