Credit: Great Lakes Cultural CampsThis image is from a 3-year stewardship project developed by Great Lakes Cultural Camps in Wikwemikon in conjunction with youth from Teme-Augama First Nation on Bear Island. The bark canoe was also built by Anishinaabe youth that took...
Over the past few weeks, our staff, team of volunteers, and board of directors have been discussing the possibility of reopening, listening to one another’s concerns, and evaluating the risks involved. While Peterborough City and County are doing fairly well at the...
Background The Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ontario, stewards the world’s largest collection of canoes, kayaks and paddled watercraft. More than 600 in number and with a significant representation of Indigenous canoe cultures from across Canada and around...
We are all tired of being cooped up at home … so let’s get outside for some fresh air and fun! The museum is hosting a winter contest and challenging both the Peterborough community and our friends around the country and world to build a snow canoe (or kayak) to be...
It goes without saying that it has been an extraordinary year so far for all and, as you’d expect, here also at The Canadian Canoe Museum. When the world came to a halt, and we closed our doors in March, our daily operations were completely transformed overnight. We...
Environmental assessments set to begin at end of November The Canadian Canoe Museum (CCM) announced today that it has identified Johnson Park, the City-owned property at 2077 Ashburnham Drive in Peterborough, ON, as the preferred site for the building of its new canoe...
