Agency:.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the collaboration of Société Radio-Canada.

Director, Bernard Gosselin ; editing, Bernard Gosselin ; producer, Michel Brault ; camera, Jean-Pierre Lachapelle ; sound, Serge Beauchemin, Richard Besse ; music, Alain Lamontagne.

Recorded 1980.

Five men work together in a communal effort to build a skiff on Ile-aux-Coudres, an island in the St. Lawrence River. It is built in a traditional fashion, all the more remarkable because no blueprint is used. The film does not merely record a building tradition, it reveals the character of the craftsmen, who are influenced by a pre-industrial way of life underscored by spontaneity and wit.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Golden Sheaf Award - Category: Techniques, 1980 Prize of the O.M.T. Tourist Film Organization - for the Best Tourist Film with participants in a Continuous Action, 1980

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).