ocr: u decorations. After the Museum purchased this canoe in 1883, Haida paddlers took it from the - - Queen Charlotte Islands to Victoria, British Columbia. A ship then carried it to Panama via Port Townsend, in Washington State, and San Francisco. The Panama Canal had not yet been built, SO the canoe crossed the isthmus by rail. Another ship carried it up the Atlantic coast to New York. The long, arduous journey 56