Snowshoes, canoes and kayaks.

Our current snowshoes were adapted from North American natives' designs. Europeans had some knowledge of snowshoes, mostly from Scandinavia and Siberia, but they were inferior. In one of his journal, Samuel de Champlain (considered the father of New France) wrote :

« L'Hyver quand il y a beaucoup de neiges, il usent d'une maniere de raquette qui est grande deux ou trois fois comme celles de France, qu'ils attachent à leur pieds, & vont ainsi dans les neiges sans enfoncer, car autrement ils ne pourroient chasser ny aller en beaucoup de lieux. »

Which roughly translates to "In winter, there are lots of snow, they (natives) create some kind of snowshoes, two or three times as big as those from France, attached to their feet, they go in the snow, without sinking. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to hunt, nor go many places".

edit : Here's a quote from an english version of his journal^1

"When they go a hunting, they use a kind of snow-shoe twice as large as those hereabouts, which they attach to the soles of their feet, and walk thus over the snow with out sinking in, the women and children as well as the men."

The North American canoes became the main mode of transportation in New France. They used a wooden frame with some light bark of birch trees, making them much lighter than their European counterparts, allowing for long portage. It was widely used by the "Coureurs des bois", for fur trade and most transportations, due to our large amount of rivers. To this day, we use canoes based on the native american design.

Kayaks came from the arctic tribes (Alaska, Canada and Siberia). They were initially made from wood/bone covered with skins. I'm not sure it fits into your time frame (adopted in the early colonialism), and I don't have too much knowledge about it.

1- https://archive.org/stream/voyagessam00chamrich/voyagessam00chamrich_djvu.txt

While the concept of a canoe is worldwide and has been shown in European records, early European explorers adapted Aboriginal canoes for use in exploring and later trading throughout the Americas. These were specifically bark canoes, which could hold heavy cargo loads with a minimal risk of tipping, as well as being quite durable. the Canadian Museum of History has information on them as part of their Aboriginal history exhibition.