Takes significant step toward moving to the water’s edge The Canadian Canoe Museum (CCM) will host a formal event, today starting at 11:00am, celebrating the beginning of the building of its new world-class museum at the Johnson Property located at 2077 Ashburnham...
Building to begin in October The Canadian Canoe Museum (CCM) today announced that on September 22, 2021 it completed the purchase of Johnson Property, from the City of Peterborough. The land at 2077 Ashburnham Drive in Peterborough, ON is the site where it will build...
Mindy Willett and James Raffan on the ice of Great Slave Lake in pre-pandemic times. The Land is Our Story: Mindy Willett’s Quest to Enrich the NWT’s Cultural Curriculum Over thirty years ago, fresh from her studies at Trent University, Mindy Willett headed north to...
Indigenous Languages Program supported by TD Bank Group Kokomis Tchiman, a 26-foot long birchbark canoe built by Marcel Labelle, Métis elder and canoe-builder from the Mattawa Ontario region, sits on display in the Canadian Canoe Museum’s collection storage centre....
There is no more passionate voice for rivers and the storied canoes of New Brunswick than author and journalism professor, Philip Lee. I was delighted to read his new book called Restigouche: The long run of the wild river (available in the Canadian Canoe...
Consultation next step in planning for new museum build The Canadian Canoe Museum (CCM) announced today that it is hosting a virtual public meeting on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, at 6:30 pm EDT, via Zoom, when it will unveil details about its new museum. This will...
The Museum is temporarily CLOSED to the public. We will reopen at our new location on Ashburnham Drive in winter 2024. Grand opening celebrations will be held the weekend of May 11th, 2024!