Building history isn't difficult to find, though it usually needs to be qualified (footnotes, documentation, etc.). the interweb is notorious for misinformation about stuff, so look at your sources, the site address is the first clue.. Great lakes boat building school began in 2006, when a group of enthusiasts for the les cheneaux islands area, with its impressive history of building wooden boats learned that there was no wooden boat building school in the great lakes region.. With the expansion of the fishing industry during the mid 1800’s there was a constant need for new and larger boats to feed the markets and so like all of the fishing stations along the coastline, boat building yards were established..
When were the first "boats" built? the oldest discovered boat in the world is the 3 meter long pesse canoe constructed around 8,000 bce [ wikipedia]; but more elaborate craft existed even earlier. a rock carving in azerbaijan dating from ~10,000 bce shows a reed boat manned by about 20 paddlers.. Boat building history canada stock photos and images (392) narrow your search: vectors | black & white | cut outs. page 1 of 4. canada, province of quebec, outaouais, the city of gatineau, the canadian museum of history, new galleries dedicated to the history of canada, the first nations.. Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to before recorded history. shipbuilding and ship repairs, both commercial and military, are referred to as "naval engineering". the construction of boats is a similar activity called boat building. the dismantling of ships is called ship breaking.
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