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...
Sep 7, 2018 | At the Museum, Collection, National Projects, News
The Canadian Canoe Museum is the subject of Library and Archives Canada’s latest podcast titled Canada’s Canoe Archive. Curator Jeremy Ward welcomed Geneviève Morin, host of Discover Library and Archives Canada: Your History, Your Documentary Heritage, for a...
Aug 3, 2018 | At the Museum, Collection
The Wooden Canoe Heritage Association is a non-profit organization devoted to preserving, studying, building, restoring, and using wooden and bark canoes, and committed to disseminating information about canoeing heritage throughout the world. As part of the Wooden...
Feb 14, 2018 | Collection
With over 1000 postcards in our archival collection, we couldn’t pick just one photo to share with you on Valentine’s Day! Whether you have someone to canoodle, you’re hanging with your gal pals, or paddling solo, we hope you are feeling the love today. All...
