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Leroy Grumman is an important name in the history of canoeing due to his company’s development of the aluminum canoe as a way to keep his factories busy after the second world war.
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Canoes: A Natural History in North America
by Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims
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They were heavy, loud, hot in the summer and cold in the winter, and people loved them. Thousands of inexpensive and tough Grumman canoes still ply waters across the continent.
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History
Cultural Studies
Literature
Native American Studies
Regional Studies
Date
After 1945
Related Section
Chapter 6: Synthetic Canoes
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aluminum
postwar
Grumman
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San Diego Air & Space Museum
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