EXPLANATION OF PLATE 4. 
Algonkian Snowshoe types of Eastern Canada and bordering lands. 
FIGURE 1. Ojibwa Snowshoe 45 inches long and 21 inches wide. The type used 
around Montreal for heavy work. A hardwood frame in one piece bent in front 
into a wide form and finished in a trailer behind. The shoe is perfectly flat. 
As a rule it is very neatly made, and in this particular example quite an intricate 
pattern is worked into the toe and heel-meshing. 
St. George Snowshoe Club, Montreal. 
FIGURE 2. Ojibwa Snowshoe with the same general description as number 1. It 
is 40 inches long and 17 inches wide, 
Private Collection, Montreal. 
FIGURE 3. This shoe is 36 inches long and 144 inches wide. 
Private Collection, Montreal. 
FIGURE 4. An old Algonkian Snowshoe from Canada, probably one of the oldest 
in existence. The size is not given but it is a narrower shoe than the examples 
given above. It is flat and of the same type as the other specimens. 
Varden Collection, United States Patent Office. 
FIGURE 5. A Huron Snowshoe from Lorette, Canada. A lenticular oval shoe, 
35 inches long and 16 inches wide. It is perhaps a modern type and apparently 
a transitional form between the Montagnais two-bar oval and the Ojibwa types. 
Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. 
All of the above Snowshoes are flat. 
