I Love Paddling

One of us here in the Canoeing.com office has some vacation days coming in August.  Funny thing, though, he’s not exactly sure where he’s going to paddle those days. THIS recent Vancouver Sun story, however, put Canada’s Athabasca River on the hit list.  The river runs from the foot of the Columbia Glacier in Jasper […]

On the first day of June, Tony Ebdon and Chris Petrie pushed their canoe onto the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton, beginning a 1,500 mile trip to Churchill, Manitoba. The pair is paddling to raise money for “The Big Wild,” an initiative to celebrate and conserve Canada’s wild and natural areas. When the paddlers passed […]

We stumbled across Dan Crowley’s Latitude Somewhere, Longitude Who Cares blog recently.  Crowley, the sports editor of the Falmouth Massachusetts Enterprise, writes about wilderness travel on the site. Last week, HERE, he posted a nice survey of books written about Maine’s Allagash River and its environs.  The Allagash runs through what many consider the wildest patch of land […]

Here’s one that caught our attention … A 14-year-old boy spends time refurbishing an old aluminum canoe.  A day before he’s about to push off with it into the water for the very first time, his canoe goes missing. After his mother places an ad in the local paper requesting its return, someone steps forward with the boat, agreeing […]

A paddling expedition that pushed off today will celebrate the 100th birthdays of the Superior National Forest and Quetico Provincial Park. The Heart of the Continent Partnership, a coalition of stakeholder organization within and surrounding Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario and the Superior National Forest in Minnesota, is organizing a canoe expedition across the region, […]

It’s National Canoe Day in Canada today.  Although Canoeing.com is based in the United States, let’s just say, today, we’re all Canadians. (And, indeed, most of our office is out paddling today!) To help celebrate Canoe Day – for those of us not actually on the water, anyway — we offer today’s piece by Toronto Globe and Mail columnist Roy […]

As Canada anticipates its annual National Canoe Day on Friday, June 26, the London Free Press in Ontario finds that the importance of the canoe in aboriginal, historic, and present-day Canada owes much to the northern nation’s geography. In William Wolfe-Wylie’s story, HERE, Canadian Canoe Museum executive director James Raffan explains that in a country […]

Candance Paul, the chief of the Maliseet First Nation of New Brunswick, Canada, wants to build a museum and heritage center that will feature the “Grandfather Canoe,” built by Maliseet craftsmen 180 years ago. The canoe is thought to be the oldest birchbark canoe in existence.  CBC News published THIS story about this matter today. […]