A group of students in Peel have learned how to build a traditional birch bark canoe.

The Peel District School Board (PDSB), Maawnjidiing Wiingushkeng Centre for Indigenous Excellence and Land-Based Learning worked with teacher Chuck Commanda to bring the learning to the school district. The two-week course was available to students of the PDSB who identify as First Nations, Metis or Inuit and, once completed, gave a full-time, leadership credit that will go towards students' Ontario secondary school diploma.

CFPT spoke with the PDSB to learn more: