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  • I went to the point in an empty canoe and found it would be dangerous to proceed even in an empty Canoe

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Mr. Lunch Borrows A Canoe is one of my favorite books ever.

    ccfinlay: Added a new userpic, shamelessly stolen ccfinlay 2006

  • Canoe is one of Cuba's better Olympic sports, dating back to collaboration in the early 1980s with former communist countries in eastern Europe, such as Bulgaria and East Germany, which traditionally had strong programs.

    USATODAY.com - U.S. boats eliminated; Doktor is in the finals 2004

  • Canoe is smashed like eggshell, but is on top of ice and cannot sink.

    The Sun Dog Trail 1907

  • Canoe is smashed like egg-shell, but it is on top of ice and cannot sink.

    The Sun-dog Trail 1905

  • Canoe is smashed like eggshell, but is on top of ice and cannot sink.

    The Sundog Trail 1905

  • Canoe is smashed like eggshell, but is on top of ice and cannot sink.

    THE SUN DOG TRAIL 1905

  • But since the Emancipation in '38 this custom has been gradually dying out, and John-Canoe is nearly as much a thing of the past as Gog and Magog, only he has no statue to commemorate his former splendours.

    A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters Mary Anne 1871

  • When it is brought to a due length, they raise it upon a Bed to a convenient height for their working, and then begin by gentle Fires to hollow it, and with scrapers rake the Trunk, and turn away the Fire from one place to another, till they have deepen'd the Belly of it to their desire: Thus also they shape the ends, till they have made it a fit Vessel for crossing the Water, and this they call a Canoe, one of which I have seen thirty foot long.

    The History and Present State of Virginia, in Four Parts 1722

  • You're at a restaurant called Canoe or very close to it?

    CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2009 2009

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