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Welcome to Bea Lake |
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The remains of birchbark canoes are commonly found at portages and other locations
along the Idaa Trail. When Tom Andrews, an archaeologist from the Prince of Wales
Northern Heritage Centre, travelled the trail in the early 1990s, Marie Mantla,
a Dogrib elder, told him of two birchbark canoes that were stored and never recovered
near Bea Lake (Bea Ti 
in Dogrib) in 1939. Guided by another Dogrib elder, Harry Simpson, the team found
the remains of the canoes, and also located the birch tree used to repair the
canoes.
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