Welcome to Canadian Canoe Routes

Canadian Canoe Routes is an online meeting place for those who enjoy exploring the lakes and rivers of Canada by canoe.

Inside, you'll find hundreds of route descriptions, gear information and reviews, tips, tricks and techniques and active discussion forums.

The most important thing you'll find is people - a community of paddlers who share a common bond - their love of Canada's wilderness areas and their passion for exploring it by canoe.

CCR May Photo Contest Winner

May Photo Contest Winner was "luv2kanu" - "My photo was taken in Algonquin Park (Crotch Lake) on a beautiful early morning in late August. The air was still and the temperature was just right to create that magical mist rising off the water. I managed to convince my wife to crawl out of her warm sleeping bag and act as a model. I was able to get number of shots over about half an hour when the breeze finally came up and dispersed the mist. I shot both from shore and in a kayak to capture various angles and lighting conditions. Some great memories from a wonderful trip!"

What's Happening on CCR?

	Echoes from the Forums
	CCR June-July Photo Contest Starting now CCR members may enter a photo in another 'Open-themed' contest. Come & share your best pics with the rest of us!! We all love to see each others photos. Hiker Neil has just posted the Details of this contest here. We will again post the winning photo here on the Home Page for everybody to enjoy. CCR May Photo Contest From mid April to end of May we had an open contest & received 23 fantastic entries! Click here to view the top four entries for May! To see all of the entries go here. For this contest we received 143 votes - each voter was allowed 3 choices. With so many great photos, it was nearly impossible to pick out your favourite three!
	Nastawgan: the WCA Quarterly Journal
	The Winter issue of Nastawgan has now been sent out & excerpts are available for you to read. To read the full version, consider becoming a WCA member. Membership form, information & instructions are available on the WCA website.
	Canoe Trips From our Website
	'Hooligan' has been posting a trip report in instalments of a trip he did some years ago on the Kanairiktok River. It is an exremely enjoyable read, with an extensive & humorous disclaimer. In 'Hooligan's' words, this is a trip report, albeit an old one, of a journey on the Kanairiktok River in Labrador. In Inuktitut, the river’s name means “the place with straight trees good for tent poles”. It was an unknown river of raging whitewater, narrow gorges and falls, set in an isolated, barren landscape. To say I was nervous about this river trip would be an understatement; I was scared shitless! To enjoy this great trip report join us here on the forum.
	Photo Highlights from the Galleries
	In the beautiful province of Quebec there are countless beautiful areas to paddle. View some beautiful photos by 'tripperted' from La Mauricie National Park in the fall. More of tripperted's photos are also available here for your viewing. Visit the Quebec gallery...
	WCA/CCR Updates & Events
	The WCA Fall Meeting 2011 will again be held at the Madawaska Kanu Centre Oct 1-3, 2011. More information to follow. New WCA website launched April 22 2010!! We are excited to announce that our new website for the Wilderness Canoe Association has just been launched. It is the result of many months work & we are very proud of it. To see the new site click here: the new WCA website To read more about the site features click here: Description & Features of the new WCA website .
	Recipes: Tips & Tricks from the Paddler�s Pot
	As the canoeing season gets rolling, many of us are starting our dehydrators up again & looking for interesting recipes to try. This one submitted by Ben Gervais - for Mango Chicken - looks like a winner! It was Ben's favourite meal on a 25 day Wabakimi trip.
	Articles: Of Current Interest
	To anyone who is slightly confused by digital mapping, this article submitted by Richard Munn, "A Digital Primer", gives a great primer on basic GPS functions & the two main digital map formats, raster & vector, & their uses.

Paddling Moments

ROMAINE RIVER AUG. 2009
See the Romaine River in August, 2009 as a massive hydro-electric project begins. Four dams are being constructed in this previously untouched wilderness. Keep in mind as you watch this video that most of what you see will be flooded when this project is completed.

THANKS TO NICK D'ANTONO for recommending this video! (posted April 16, 2010)

Do you have a favourite YouTube canoeing video you'd like to share on CCR? Just send us the link at admin@myccr.com! We will be posting new ones regularly.

Quote of the Moment
Sit outside at midnight and close your eyes; feel the grass, the air, the space. Listen to the birds for ten minutes at dawn. Memorize a flower..
Linda Hasselstrom