Travels with Neegik: Humanity’s Default Watercraft
I was gifted a red Huron canoe for my 15th birthday. I named it Neegik (“otter” in Ojibwa). And it changed my life.
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The Great Canoe
Much more than a mode of transportation, the cedar canoe provides an integral and tangible link to culture, history, community and homelands for local Indigenous Nations.
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Lake Effect: The Big Canoe Project
Setting the pace for community paddle experiences and water stewardship. Words :: Ned Morgan. The Big Canoe Project continues to gain speed, powered by the collective paddle strokes of the…
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Lake Huron Water Walk: A Jimaan Journey
words & photography :: Scott Parent. It’s been hours since we’ve shared words. The only sound is our paddles chugging through the water, as they have been for a long…
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Paddling a Solo Canoe with Two Blades
words :: Ned Morgan. In recent years, I’ve paddled nothing but kayaks. I grew up canoeing, but on a trip over a decade ago on the Oxtongue River, my canoe…
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Betwixt & Between: An Untold Tom Thomson Story
Imagine, if you will, that two artists exploring a second-hand bookstore in downtown Toronto come upon a tattered copy of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young…
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Calm Before the Storm: Northern Quebec’s Broadback River at Full Bore
It’s noon on August 15 and our shuttle driver has just traveled six hours down one of the most treacherous roads of the North to meet us, wish us well…
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The Yukon’s Snake River
The Yukon’s Snake River is one of the true gems of the Peel River Watershed. Paddling it is the trip of a lifetime. And all who experience come back changed.…
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How the Beaver River Rat Race Went from Quaint to Crazy
Quest for the Golden Beaver: How the Beaver River Rat Race went from quaint to crazy Words by Colin Field Photos by Willy Waterton The party was simply too big.…
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Canadian Touring Classic: the Swift Kipawa
A canoe is such an iconically Canadian symbol that it’s easy to forget just how much traditional knowledge and expertise goes into the creation of one. Since the ’80s, Swift Canoe…
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Beaver River Eats One More Canoe
With ski season coming to a close rapidly (although skiing in 20 degree weather is pretty awesome), the rivers are high and the whitewater season is here for a short…
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