Chuck Commanda was doing just fine making birch baskets. In fact, word of his skill spread to the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. where he was invited to give workshops and presentations to thousands of people interested in Anishinaabe...
2017 was an incredible year for the museum! We hosted many events, launched a new exhibit and celebrated some significant milestones. We also made significant progress on our redevelopment project. A series of funding announcements related to our future home allowed...
Just two weeks after they unrolled a 6-metre sheet of birch bark in The Canadian Canoe Museum’s Preserving Skills Gallery, canoe builder Chuck Commanda and an enthusiastic team of helpers applied the last coatings of pitch to the seams of a brand-new canoe. As they...
It was clear from the outset of the Connected by Canoe Journey that the emotional water level was already high. During our first media interviews at the send-off event in Peterborough on May 2, Algonquin canoe builder, Stephen Hunter, was in tears as he described the...
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!
