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Carve a Canoe Paddle – Dec 12 & 13, 2024

While learning how to use traditional hand tools with the help of a supportive, expert instructors, create your own beautiful carved and sanded black cherry paddle.

$340

Canadian River Heritage Award nomination window closes

Canada is made up of rivers, so it’s only right that people who go above and beyond to preserve Canada’s river heritage should be celebrated. The Canadian Heritage Rivers System in partnership with The Canadian Canoe Museum recognizes outstanding individual contributions to river heritage and conservation with The Canadian Heritage River Award. Nominations are NOW OPEN for ... Keep Reading

How To Be a Happy (Winter!) Camper with Kevin Callan – February 1st, 2025

Kevin Callan comes to The Canadian Canoe Museum to bring you his Winter Camping workshop! Also known as the Happy Camper, Kevin is a legendary Canadian camping icon and the author of many excellent books and resources on camping including, The Complete Guide to Winter Camping. This one-day workshop will make you better equipped for your ... Keep Reading

$140

Carve a Canoe Paddle – March 20th & 21st, 2025

Create your own beautiful carved and sanded black cherry paddle and go home with all the varnishing supplies to see it complete. Learn to use traditional hand tools and complete your paddle with the help of a supportive, expert instructors.This workshop makes a terrific gift and there is no experience necessary! Dates: March 20 & ... Keep Reading

$340

Build a Wanigan and Sew a Tumpline – April 25th, 2025

Have you always wanted a wanigan?  In this disciplinary workshop you'll start the day with a hammer and nails assembling the wooden pieces of your wanigan. After lunch you try your hand at the basics of leather working - sewing together the leather pieces of your tumpline. By the end of the day your finished ... Keep Reading

$280

How To Be a Happy Camper with Kevin Callan – June 7th, 2025

Kevin Callan (a.k.a. The Happy Camper) instructor and author of The Happy Camper: The Essential Guide to Life Outdoors will be hosting a canoe tripping workshop touching on everything from first-time outings, more moderate excursions, and advanced multiple-day trips,He’ll be covering topics such as: fire lighting, making good meals, portaging, navigation, and basically how to still ... Keep Reading

$140

Cooking Over a Fire with Chef Amanda – July 17th, 2025

Spend an evening cooking a rustic and delicious feast over fire with Chef Amanda and her husband, Adam.  Learn different cooking techniques over coals and open flame while enjoying a three course meal. Start with kneading and baking a Crusty Dutch Oven Bread over the coals.  Next, over the different zones of the fire we’ll cook ... Keep Reading

$99

Carve a Canoe Paddle – September 18th and 19th, 2025

Create your own beautiful carved and sanded black cherry paddle and go home with all the varnishing supplies to see it complete. Learn to use traditional hand tools and complete your paddle with the help of a supportive, expert instructors.This workshop makes a terrific gift and there is no experience necessary! Dates: September 18 & ... Keep Reading

$340

Wood-and-Canvas Canoe Restoration Clinic – November 6th and 7th, 2025

Do you have a wood-and-canvas canoe at home that needs a little love? Participants in the canoe restoration clinic will learn how to re-canvas a wood-and-canvas canoe and perform basic structural repairs (for example; replacing a rib, or repairing damaged planking) while being immersed in the world's largest collection of canoes, kayaks and paddled watercraft.Interested participants ... Keep Reading

$475

Make a Leather-Bound Journal – November 15th, 2025

This rugged, attractive leather-covered journal is based on a 14th century ledger structure. You will appreciate how this beautiful book’s construction allows the pages to open flat, making it perfect for sketching while sitting on the shore, or writing in at a desk. Once filled with memories, the cover can be detached and a new ... Keep Reading

$165

Carve a Canoe Paddle – December 11th and 12th, 2025

Create your own beautiful carved and sanded black cherry paddle and go home with all the varnishing supplies to see it complete. Learn to use traditional hand tools and complete your paddle with the help of a supportive, expert instructors.This workshop makes a terrific gift and there is no experience necessary! Dates: December 11 & ... Keep Reading

$340
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The Canadian Canoe Museum respectfully acknowledges that we are situated on the Treaty 20 Michi Saagiig territory and the traditional territory covered by the Williams Treaties First Nations. The Canadian Canoe Museum also recognizes the contributions of Indigenous Peoples including First Nations, Inuit and Métis, in shaping this community and country as a whole.

As an organization that stewards the world’s largest and most significant collection of canoes, kayaks & paddled watercraft, we will honour and share the cultural histories and stories within the collection in all that we do.

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