Dec 5, 2019 | Canadian Canoe Museum, Collaborative Relations, Collection, Field Notes, New Museum, New Museum Design & Build
By Jeremy Ward, Curator and Robin Binèsi Cavanagh, Director of Indigenous Peoples Collaborative RelationsOur Curator, Jeremy Ward, and our Director of Indigenous Peoples’ Collaborative Relations, Robin Binèsi Cavanagh, have embarked on a cross-country tour to...
Aug 8, 2019 | Canadian Canoe Museum, Collaborative Relations, Collection, Field Notes, New Museum, New Museum Design & Build
Robin Cavanagh, Jeremy Ward, and Fred Metallic in Listuguj First Nation viewing where we were in relation to the Seven Traditional Districts of the Mi’gmaq By Robin Binèsi Cavanagh, Director of Indigenous Peoples Collaborative Relations A large part of my role at The...
Jun 25, 2019 | At the Museum, Canadian Canoe Museum, Collection, News
Since its inception in 2008, National Canoe Day has encouraged individuals and communities across Canada to connect – by canoe.National Canoe Day was coined by The Canadian Canoe Museum following a CBC campaign that in 2007, declared the canoe one of the Seven Wonders...
Nov 16, 2018 | At the Museum, Collection
By James Raffan, Director of External Relations Even though I’ve been associated in an intimate way with The Canadian Canoe Museum since its birth in Peterborough in the 1990s, when the Adopt-an-Artifact program was launched a few years back, I just had to get in...
Nov 14, 2018 | At the Museum, Collection, Education, Friends of the Museum, In the Store
Our names are Kate and Maddy and our parents work at The Canadian Canoe Museum. Today was Take Your Kids To Work Day so we got to go along with them! In the morning, we had the incredible opportunity to participate in the Skype-a-Thon which is a worldwide program run...
Oct 30, 2018 | Collection
By Liz Watkins, Collections Assistant Have you ever given a favourite object a name? Think of items from significant moments in your life – perhaps a favourite toy or your first car comes to mind. Putting a name on something changes the value of the item to the owner...
