a group of people standing behind a wooden canoe on display

Building a birch canoe by hand takes more than just birch bark: it takes community, generations of knowledge — and a little bit of spruce sap. Land Needs Guardians Storytellers and Wahkohtowin Guardians Amberly Quakegesic & Isabelle Allen share how the experience brought them closer to their culture and reconnected them to the land, Elders, and their community.