Welcome to Canadian Canoe RoutesCanadian 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.
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Echoes from the Forums |
| Summer is the season for Dragon Boat Races & some of our members have gotten involved with the sport & are looking for advice. Have you ever raced in a dragon boat? Share your experiences with other canoeists who might be interested in trying it. | |
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Nastawgan: the WCA Quarterly Journal |
| Hot off the press! You can read samples from the new Summer Issue of Nastawgan 09 here!! To read the full version, consider becoming a WCA member. Membership form, information & instructions are available on the WCA website. | |
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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. | |
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Photo Highlights from the Galleries |
Photo highlights will again begin from the east coast highlighting some photos by "hooligan" of Newfoundland & Labrador. Enjoy this & other photos by "hooligan" ! |
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WCA/CCR Updates & Events |
| NAHANNI PROTECTED FOREVER!! WATERSHED PROTECTION AND EXPANSION OF NAHANNI NATIONAL PARK FINALIZED AT LAST! Legislation was announced June 9, 2009 that increases the world famous park reserve to nearly seven times the size of the original one established in 1972. It will permanently protect over 30,000 km2 of Boreal wilderness - an area the size of Vancouver Island or Switzerland - one of the largest bio-preserves in the world. CPAWS news release Map Background |
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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. | |
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Articles: Of Current Interest |
Neil Miller has recently contributed an article recounting his experiences of a 3-day whitewater course at Madawaska Canoe Centre. The second part of his series is called Humility & the Forward Stroke. Any of us who have ever taken a paddling course can relate to being humbled about our forward stroke!! |
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Paddling Moments |
A break from serious movies to a folk tune called "Lucifer's Portage. This movie was posted on the forum, but for those who have not yet seen it, ENJOY!! It is a tribute to the great Quebec folk tales....Loup Garou, La Chasse Gallerie and others.
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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. |
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Being a wilderness enthusiast is a lot like sitting on an ice floe. Every day the floe gets smaller as pieces break off and float away. you know that it will continue to get smaller day by day, never bigger. That is the reality that all lovers of wild lands have to face.
Bill Mason
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