Photo: Elder Eemeelayou Arnaquq writes Inuktitut words relating to the qajaq on chart paper. As an organization that stewards the world’s largest and most significant collection of canoes, kayaks & paddled watercraft, The Canadian Canoe Museum honours and shares...
A few months before the pandemic circled the globe, a dear friend, collector and appraiser for the museum Roger Young, offered us this charming wooden model from his own collection. What might be described as a recreational kayak, or in many parts of Europe as a kanu,...