The canoe has always been part of Canada’s national mythology — but it’s a complicated history. For thousands of years, these watercraft provided essential transportation through the vast wilds of ...

PETERBOROUGH, ON, May 11, 2024 /CNW/ - The Canadian Canoe Museum (CCM) will host an official celebration today at 1:00 pm ET, unveiling its new purpose-built, world-class, two-story, ...

Whatever floats your boat (no pun intended). That’s what they say when it comes to the wide variety of unique, underground, and sometimes just downright weird things that interest people. Like canoes, ...

The Canadian Canoe Museum is one of the GTA's best kept secrets, but after receiving some major changes it may not be a secret for much longer. Located in Peterborough, the museum has been a wonderful ...

Left to right: Sandra Phinney, Norm Betts, Laura Gilks and Jim Lyons pose with Bella, Phinney’s canoe, handcrafted at Betts’ Miramichi Canoe Co. in Doaktown, N.B. (Photo: Sue Hutchins) At 9:20 a.m. on ...

Canadian folk music legend Gordon Lightfoot offered up his own watercraft to the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough on Thursday. The singer-songwriter donated three of his canoes along with one ...

This vast former factory on Monaghan Road in the city’s west end was once home to Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC), the international company that grew out of Ole Evinrude’s 1909 invention of a three ...

I love Canada and particularly the Canadians. I rent my house in the South of France to some lovely ones because a long time ago a friend of mine told me that Canadians were the best tenants. “Why?” I ...

In his workshop near the Tobique River in northern New Brunswick, Bill Miller lovingly crafts canvas-covered cedar canoes in the tradition established by his grandfather in 1925. That, he maintains, ...