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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 & kayak.

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

 Winning Photos from contests held in the forums are displayed here for all to enjoy.

October - November 2011 Photo Contest Winner was Skeeter with this spectacular fall photo.   Skeeter's description of his photo: 
"Thanksgiving weekend Lake of Two Rivers, Algonquin Park. Just behind the beach was an area where there were canoeists everywhere. I had to be patient while this random dude was the only one in the frame. There are about 5 other canoes just out of frame."


 

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.


What's Happening on CCR?

Echoes from the Forums

27TH ANNUAL WILDERNESS CANOE SYMPOSIUM
FRI. FEB. 17 & SAT FEB. 18  2012

Speakers & topics
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RESULTS OF PHOTO CONTEST October-November 2011 

To see all the wonderful entries received go here.  The "autumn" theme resulted in spectacular and colourful photos being entered. What a great show!

Thanks to all the folks who entered their photos.


 SEE THE WINNING PHOTOS ! 

You can also read details of the winning photos & discussion of them.

You can see all the entries in the Gallery:

Congratulations to Skeeter (1st with 19 votes), Shearjoy (2nd) & jcw41 (3rd).

Again, many thanks to all who shared their photos & entered the contest & all who voted for their favourites!!  We all enjoy the photos!

 

Previous Photo Entries
If you have a title or a description you would like added to any of your previously entered photos in our Photo Contest, please let us know. The title and description can be added to your entry(ies) in the Contest Galleries so that everyone can enjoy them.See here for more information.

 

Passing of Kirk Wipper 1923 - 2011
Click here for the very sad news about the passing of Kirk Wipper.

 
Nastawgan: the WCA Quarterly Journal

The latest issue of Nastawgan has been published in print in full colour!  this is our first print issue in colour, although our online versions have been in colour for some time. 

Soon new excerpts from the latest Nastawgan will be available here. To receive it regularly one must be a member of the WCA.
route map example Canoe Trips From our Routes Database

In the province of Quebec is a very interesting lake that can be paddled, called Lac Manicouagan. Manicouagan was formed by an impact about 212 million years ago & some scientists believe that this impact may have been responsible for a mass extinction associated with the loss of roughly 60% of all species. It has been proposed that the impact was created by an asteroid with a diameter of about 5 kilometers. A description of this very interesting 5-day canoe trip on Lac Manicouagan is available in our routes database.

 
gallery_photo Photo Highlights from the Galleries

Forty years ago this month Verlen Kruger and Clint Waddell departed from Montreal and crossed Canada and Alaska to become the first to paddle across N. America in one 6-month season. Kruger built this 21 foot 110 lb sitka spruce canoe that would carry them through the Great Lakes, the Fur Trade Route, down the Mackenzie up the famed Rat River over McDougal Pass, Porcupine, and down the Yukon to the Bering Sea.


The canoe has been sitting stored away for a long time until Friends of Verlen decided to refurbish it. Dan & Scott Smith and other friends are almost done with the canoe & a no. of very interesting photos of them at work on this canoe have been posted by 'paddletothesea' in the Boat building section of our Gallery.

 
 
WCA/CCR Updates & Events

CCR Changes are Afoot!!
April 28-29 from 11 pm. to approximately 10 a.m. our site will be down for renovations.  This is the start of a number of new things happening at CCR.

There is a new banner, Gear & Trip Planning & Food Sections are done over & are now far more useable, forums software is upgraded, most sections of the site have been moved to a new platform which will be easier to manage plus many more changes.

Much of the content still needs to be brought up to date & that will happen steadily over the next few months.

There are many other changes in the pipeline.....soon Routes, which is not yet changed will be totally made over & brought into 2011.  Our Gallery will be improved & Resource information wqill be made much more accessible.
 

WCA Outings for 2011
Flatwater and whitewater canoe trips and other outings are organized by members for members, including day trips to local rivers, multi-day canoeing & camping and wilderness expeditions. Have a look at some of the upcoming outings!

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

The most necessary food group on a canoe trip is of course "GORP"! Check out Darren Cope's recipe for 'not-so-basic Gorp'. If you have a Gorp recipe you'd like to share, please add it here to our recipe collection.

 

 

 
Articles: Of Current Interest

The 3rd instalment of Neil Miller's saga of his 3 day course at Madawaska Kanu Centre continues with "Farmer John Meets Starburst" . 

 

 

Paddling Moments

....another Kevin Callan YouTube video, this time showing us how to hang a bear bag.


 

 

 

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

A nature lover is someone who, when treed by a bear, enjoys the view.
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