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From: Steady Eddie
Date: 7/16/2002
Time: 9:20:03 AM
Remote Name: 204.245.228.218
From James Swan's book, "Northwest Coast", published in 1857---Swan writes of a canoe that he had bought, saying it was 46 feet long, fully 6 feet wide, and carried 30 Indians when it crossed the bar.
Now THAT was one big cedar tree. It also suggests the idea that the Chinooks, being the great businessmen that they were (are), simply bought their "war canoes" from the Nootka Tribe up north. The Nootka were famous for building large, Ocean going, canoes that were real beauties. Why else would Swan have written about the 30 Indians (fifteen down each side) being in it "when she crossed the Bar"?
S.E.