Canoeing Stories

National Canoe Day Celebrated in Norway

We put in and paddled off into the protected waters of the fjord. Photo By James Raffan.

There was a small but very enthusiastic celebration of National Canoe Day led by Ingrid Skjoldvaer who lives in Sigerfjord in the Vesteralen region of Norway (above the Arctic Circle!). Ingrid is a member of a Norwegian Outdoors Club that has cabins all over the country. You join the club for about $15 a year and that entitles you to book these cabins (which are beautiful and in some intensely scenic locations around Norway). Ingrid invited CCM ED James Raffan and his wife Gail Simmons to go canoeing on an ocean fjord at Guvag, Norway.

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National Canoe Day Is June 25th-26th In Peterborough!

June 25 Beavermead Event

NCD 2010 Peterborough

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When: Saturday June 25, 11am - 2pm
Where: Beavermead Park, Picnic Pavilion
Admission: FREE

Celebrate the living tradition of canoeing in the Kawarthas! Free for all, National Canoe Day includes activities for kids and adults of all ages - you don't need to be an experienced canoeist: canewbies welcome! Bring your canoe, or just yourself! Free BBQ from 11:30am while supplies last.

The event gets under way with displays and demonstrations from the Canadian Canoe Museum, the Peterborough Paddlers Club, the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association, Brownsea Base, Trent Severn Waterway Species At Risk, and more!

Dip and Lick! Five Minutes on the Missinaibi River

No Rum for the Voyageurs!

Posted By Kevin Callan, Paddler's Guide to Happy Camping

The National Canoe Day celebration at Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park this past weekend was a hit. We arrived in style by voyageur canoe, had music all day by Fresh Water Trade, had cedar strip and birch bark canoe builders on hand, canoe racers, paddle making, paddle painting, me as MC and a bunch of enthusiastic paddlers who gathered on this historic waterway for a great event.. I camped out at the park for three days (I love Samuel de Champlain campground) and spent some time with some great people.