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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‘Full Reset’ on the Spanish River
Low water but high spirits on the West Fork of Ontario's Spanish River.
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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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Speaking French: Savouring One of Canada’s Most Historic Rivers
You don’t have to be a Voyageur to enjoy the fur-trade routes on Canada's first designated heritage river, but it helps.
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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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Eat Like a Voyageur: Make the Bread and ‘Energy Bars’ That Fuelled the Fur Trade
words :: Carmen Kuntz. Imagine canoe-tripping for a living. A paddle and canoe as tools of the trade, the river as an office. Paddle. Navigate. Survive. Now imagine the year…
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Downburst Blues: When a Trip Goes from Calm to Chaos
Severe weather brings valuable perspectives to backcountry trips. Words :: Leslie Anthony. One August afternoon a decade ago, I was just starting a canoe trip with my then 16-year-old daughter,…
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Paddle Large: The Big Canoe Project
Check this GoFundMe campaign to support a nonprofit paddling enterprise on southern Georgian Bay comprising tours, field trips, corporate team-building, fundraising events and day-camps in big canoes. The Big…
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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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Escaping the West to Find Family, Canadianisms & Burt Reynolds
Words and Photos:: Hayley Gendron “I bet none of the pro climbers could pull off the Burt Reynolds Roll!” says my dad, laughing while lying horizontally on a large…
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Paddling The Old Way: Canvas and Woodsmoke in the Temagami Wilds
The aroma is intoxicating: varnish, cedar, damp canvas and a hint of leather. It concentrates in the cavity beneath the overturned canoe and, like a strange analgesic, eases the pain…
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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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River Idiot no More: Learning to Whitewater Canoe in Five Days
As we crash through each recirculating wave, I watch my bow partner grab the gunwales and yell at him to keep his paddle in the water. Each wave that breaks…
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Bring the Moisie: This Wild River in Northern Quebec is a Savage Force of Nature
After nearly twenty years of flatwater experience I was eager for a whitewater adventure and grateful to be offered the chance to join five others in a journey down the…
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Paddle For The North: A Journey to Shed Light on Wild Spaces
Six buds, three canoes, two dogs, one paddler with zero experience, and a 63-day, 1,500 km journey through some of the most pristine waters in the world. If there is…
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Winter Paddling in Ontario. What Could Go Wrong?
The plan came together flawlessly. For some reason, photographer Richard Roth wanted to go canoeing in the Beaver River. In December. On a -18 C day. And somehow he managed…
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Refugium: Yukon’s Peel Watershed & Why It Matters
Written by Ned Morgan. “Refugium” is a term for an unaltered ecosystem that can maintain large and diverse populations of native species rare or in flux elsewhere. Yukon’s Peel watershed has served…
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