Publications and Research Projects





The Batteau Plat of the Saint Lawrence River

Feature article " The Unbeatable Batteau" published in the April/ May 2019 issue of Canada's History Magazine.

Multimedia presentation given at two locations in April 2013

2/3 scale build of the batteaux plats excavated on the Quebec City waterfront by Daniel Laroche.  Built in 2011.  Exhibited in the I AM  WATER art show curated by Su Sheedy, Kingston, 2012



The Pilot of La Salle's Griffon

Published in The Northern Mariner   Volume 23,  Number 4,  July 2013



Moïse Hillaret, the First Shipwright on the Great Lakes

Published in Inland Seas   Volume 58,  Number 3,  Fall 2002


Square-rigged canoes of 17th-Century New France

800 kilometer voyage on the St Lawrence River from Lake Ontario to Tadoussac in a 22-foot square rigged canoe patterned after 17th Century French documents.

Writeup forthcoming

From: L'Informel   Sept-Oct 2016

From:  Le Chasse-Maree issue 281, October 2016.