Editing Canoe (section)

=== Modern canoes ===
[[File:Canvas-stretching.jpg|thumb|upright|Stretching canvas on a canoe]]

In 19th-century North America, the birch-on-frame construction technique evolved into the wood-and-canvas canoes made by fastening an external waterproofed [[canvas]] shell to planks and ribs by [[Boat building|boat builders]] such as [[Old Town Canoe]], [[E.M. White Canoe Company|E. M. White Canoe]], [[Peterborough Canoe Company]] and at the [[Chestnut Canoe Company]]<ref>{{cite web|title=A Venerable Chestnut|url=http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/collection/canoes7.cfm|publisher=Canada Science and Technology Museum|access-date=8 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002041411/http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/collection/canoes7.cfm|archive-date=2 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> in [[New Brunswick]]. Though similar to bark canoes in the use of [[Frame (nautical)|ribs]], and a waterproof covering, the construction method is different, being built by bending ribs over a solid mold. Once removed from the mold, the decks, [[thwart]]s and [[seat]]s are installed, and canvas is stretched tightly over the hull. The canvas is then treated with a combination of [[varnish]]es and [[paint]]s to render it more durable and [[Waterproofing|watertight]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Wood and Canvas Canoe|url=http://forums.wcha.org/knowledgebase/Wood+Canoe+Basics:The+Wood+and+Canvas+Canoe|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213011606/http://forums.wcha.org/knowledgebase/Wood+Canoe+Basics:The+Wood+and+Canvas+Canoe|archive-date=13 December 2013|access-date=26 October 2012|publisher=Wooden Canoe Heritage Association}}</ref>
[[File:Commodore Carl Smith, foto c. 1915.jpg|thumb|right|Canoe designer and promoter [[Carl Smith (canoeing)|Carl Smith]], {{circa}} 1915]]
Although canoes were once primarily a means of transport, with industrialization they became popular as [[recreation]]al or sporting watercraft. [[John MacGregor (sportsman)|John MacGregor]] popularized canoeing through his books, founding the [[Royal Canoe Club]] in London in 1866 and the [[American Canoe Association]] in 1880. The [[Canadian Canoe Association]] was founded in 1900 and the [[British Canoe Union]] in 1936. In Sweden, naval officer [[Carl Smith (canoeing)|Carl Smith]] was both an enthusiastic promoter of canoeing and a designer of canoes, some experimental, at the end of the 19th century.<ref name=sjohist>{{cite web |url= https://digitaltmuseum.se/0211814539697/riddare-av-paddeln-kanotismens-forsta-decennier-i-sverige|title= Riddare av paddeln: kanotismens första decennier i Sverige|last= Jonas|first= Hedberg|date= 2024|website= Digitalt Museum|publisher= [[Maritime Museum (Stockholm)]]|access-date= 23 October 2024}}</ref>

[[Sprint canoe]] was a [[demonstration sport]] at the [[1924 Paris Olympics]] and became an Olympic discipline at the [[Canoeing at the 1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Berlin Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Canoe / kayak sprint equipment and history|url=http://www.olympic.org/canoe-kayak-sprint-equipment-and-history?tab=History|publisher=olympic.org|access-date=29 September 2012}}</ref> When the [[International Canoe Federation]] was formed in 1946, it became the umbrella organization of all national canoe organizations worldwide.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}