Walk in the Front Door, Paddle Out the Back
On July 1st, 1997, The Canadian Canoe Museum opened its doors at 910 Monaghan Road in Peterborough, Ontario in the ...
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Wanna Make A Wanigan?
I have to confess that when I started working here at The Canadian Canoe Museum I didn’t know what a ...
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The Canoe Museum gets its groove on!
A different kind of upset in whitewater paddling: the Massive C-1 GrooveMassive Groove In general, we prefer to maintain four ...
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Bringing the Canoes to Life: The Nuu-chah-nulth Whaling Canoe
A post by Museum volunteer, Megan Meloche This is my first time. I am inside a dugout canoe. It rocks ...
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Paddling and Reading
Some days, it’s too windy to go out on the water. Some days, the water is just plain frozen. Some ...
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Welcoming a canoe back to Canada after 230 years
On August 29th, The Canadian Canoe Museum opened the doors of its collections storage facility to the public to host ...
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Olympic Fever!
Olympic fever has hit the Canoe Museum! With all the excitement of the Games, we thought it would be fun ...
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Paddle Away, it’s National Canoe Day!
After much anticipation, National Canoe Day is here! Though today is officially “NCD,” we held our Peterborough festivities this past ...
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Taking the Lines: Measuring a Historic Lapstrake Canoe
Using simple tools like levels, rulers and a plumb bob, along with some basic geometry, it is possible to measure ...
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Show Time!
At the beginning of the week the BBC weather called for a very pleasant Sunday. High 12, light winds and ...
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