1.   The canoes were loaded with sealskin floats.

2.   Both canoes are on their first West coast tour.

3.   A finished, new or rebuilt, wood-and-canvas canoe is something you can appraise with a cold, if admiring, eye.

4.   Canoes are notoriously hard to steer, especially if you try to drink beer and eat stale potato chips while paddling.

5.   For centuries, the canoe was a major form of transportation for native tribes and European traders.

6.   If there were two canoes, friends recall, he would insist on racing for hours at a stretch.

7.   In postwar southern California, where I was partly raised, canoes were rarer than alligators.

8.   Just as earlier cars with fins and bumpers like chrome canoes were shrines to dime-a-gallon times.

9.   Soon the other canoes are beyond our vision.

10.   The wooden canoes are direct descendants, children, of the original birch-bark watercraft.