Canoes are built in many different ways and with many different Materials today
Canoes building List
1. Traditional Wood Built Canoes
2. Fibre Glass canoes
3. Plastic canoes (roto molded canoes)
4. Kevlar canoes
5. Aluminum Canoes
to get across water (lol)
by fishing
birch wood
the men did but the women helped build it
tar
To fish?
They wanted learn and how to build birchbark canoes. The canoes know navigation from the water and they are very sturdy.
to freak out
Well, honey, those pilgrims weren't hitting up Home Depot for their DIY projects. They used good ol' trees to build their homes and canoes. Wood was their go-to natural resource for crafting everything from shelter to transportation back in the day.
They used to build canoes to transport and they also built their own ship sometimes.
The canoes of today are made from many materials, including aluminum, fiber glass, plastic, carbon fiber, wood, even bark as in yesteryear, and the combination of any and/or all.
They used birchbark sealed with the pitch from the Northern Pine tree. There are canoes made back in the late 1800's that are still viable today.