A dory-building tradition in Shelburne
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A dory-building tradition in Shelburne
Brad Dimock’s book centers on Milford Buchanan and the continuation of Shelburne, Nova Scotia’s dory-building tradition. Its historical frame is the Grand Banks Dory, a wooden rowboat associated with cod fishing and widely built from the mid-19th to early 20th century. The description also points to the local character of the craft: boatbuilding towns developed their own methods and traditions, while Buchanan learned the Shelburne approach from earlier builders. The book brings together a craft history and the account of one builder carrying forward a particular regional practice.
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The classic Grand Banks Dory became the most-built wooden rowboat in history between the mid-1800s and early 1900s. It's classic form was ideal for codfishing on the Grand Banks, and each boatbuilding town evolved it's own methods and traditions. Today only one unbroken string of dory builders reminas--Milford Buchanan in Shelburne, Nova Scotis is still building the Shelburne Dory the way the Old Fellas taught him. This is his story.
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