Bringing the Canoes to Life: Bluebird Racing Canoe
The Bluebird was acquired by Kirk Wipper and transported from British Columbia back to Ontario on the roof of his ...
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What do Skis and Canoes Have in Common?
The Peterborough Canoe Company of course! By now I’m sure you’re aware that we have some surprising and unusual items ...
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Walk in the Front Door, Paddle Out the Back
On July 1st, 1997, The Canadian Canoe Museum opened its doors at 910 Monaghan Road in Peterborough, Ontario in the ...
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Wanna Make A Wanigan?
I have to confess that when I started working here at The Canadian Canoe Museum I didn’t know what a ...
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The Canoe Museum gets its groove on!
A different kind of upset in whitewater paddling: the Massive C-1 GrooveMassive Groove In general, we prefer to maintain four ...
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Paddling and Reading
Some days, it’s too windy to go out on the water. Some days, the water is just plain frozen. Some ...
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Welcoming a canoe back to Canada after 230 years
On August 29th, The Canadian Canoe Museum opened the doors of its collections storage facility to the public to host ...
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Olympic Fever!
Olympic fever has hit the Canoe Museum! With all the excitement of the Games, we thought it would be fun ...
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That’s a Canoe?
Many of the thousands of visitors who come through the museum each year have seen this artifact in the museum’s ...
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Canoes to Go: a 19th century inflatable cloak?
Every year at this time we move into high gear developing a new temporary exhibit for our McLean-Matthews Gallery. This ...
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