Snowshoe Maker Edwin Bishop
Channel: Heritage NL
Date: 2020-12-21

Edwin Bishop is a snowshoe maker, boat builder, painter, author and retired teacher from Heart’s Delight-Islington. What started as a skill needed to repair his own snowshoes has become a pastime he really enjoys. 

Presented in partnership with The Rooms, folklorist Dale Jarvis interviews Edwin about the process of making traditional wooden snowshoes, steaming and bending the wood by hand and tying intricate knots. Recorded via Zoom for The Rooms, December 3, 2020.