They were expert in close-to-shore navigation, fishing, cooking, and eating in the bays and harbours in their bark canoes.

They built bark-covered conical shelters, and traveled in exquisitely designed birch bark canoes.

Dugouts were stronger, faster, and more efficient than previous types of bark canoes.

In his life, he worked as a guide, a trapper and woodsman, and was a skilled craftsman and artisan who excelled at constructing birch bark canoes.