This video is meant to be a Micmac family arriving at their summer encampment by birchbark canoe, as they would have several hundred years ago.

The Micmac had different encampments for different times of the year. Usually, the summer encampment was on or near the coastline. The winter encampment, however, was usually much further inland. They would leave the wigwam and the log kettle at the encampment because they were too hard to bring from one encampment to another. The families would travel from one encampment to the other in the spring and fall by canoe on the rivers.

The Micmac had different reasons for having their two encampments at different locations. One of them was food. In the summer, when they lived along the coast, they hunted clams and fish. These things could not be hunted in the wintertime, so they moved inland in the fall to hunt moose, bear and other large animals.

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