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A 180-year-old birchbark canoe dubbed “The Grandfather Canoe” which was forgotten for years at an Irish university, will be returned to Canada, the National University of Ireland, Galway announced Tuesday. The Daily Gleaner, a New Brunswick newspaper reports the story HERE, with a photo of the boat. As we’ve noted earlier — HERE and HERE— […]

Call it canoeing through horse country. When we think of North Dakota’s badlands, we don’t automatically think of canoes.  We think of Teddy Roosevelt, on a horse, hunting bison, with a big stick.  (Or something like that.) But a river runs through the heart of the western North Dakota badlands and the national park named […]

Teams of paddlers on London, Ontario’s Fanshawe Lake will propel their boats for twelve continuous hours in a charity relay to celebrate cancer survivorship called the Paddle for Life. The June 7th event, co-sponsored by Nova Craft Canoes, Veo Natural Spring Water, and the artist Philip Aziz, will donate its proceeds to Wellspring, a cancer support […]

The paddling duo of Andy Triebold and Steve Lajoie is racing like it’s still 2008. The team that swept last year’s North American “Triple Crown” canoe races, kicked of the 2009 season with a repeat victory last weekend at New York’s General Clinton Canoe Regatta. The General Clinton is the first jewel of the canoe racing trifecta that […]

Here’s one from our “Hat’s Off Department:” We recently learned about a program that northern Wisconsin’s Friends of St. Croix Headwaters has organized which seeks to provide educational canoeing opportunities to local students. It seemed like just the sort of thing deserving a vitual pat on the back. The program called Canoes on Wheels provides […]

In an era where kids are spending less and less time outdoors, author Tom Watson tried to do something about it. He wrote a childrens’ guide to canoeing and kayaking called Kids Gone Paddlin’: The Young Paddler’s Guide to Having More Fun Outdoors. The book is a fun, colorful primer aimed at pre-teens that teaches […]

Canoeing.com has just published a new feature on the efforts some northern Minnesota outfitters are making to help more families become paddling families.  You can find the feature HERE, in our Beginner’s Guide. Outfitters from along the Gunflint Trail — an important Boundary Waters Canoe Area gateway — are pushing the idea that kids are […]

The Quetico Superior Foundation’s Wilderness News newsletter, which some 16,000 paddlers and other lovers of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Quetico Provincial Park have enjoyed in its paper form for years, has launched an online companion — Wilderness News Online. Regular readers of Wilderness News and close readers of its new web service will […]