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Ernest Oberholtzer’s 1912 canoe journey from The Pas, Manitoba to Hudson’s Bay and back to civilization via the Lake Winnipeg railhead at Gimli has long fascinated expedition paddlers. Oberholtzer and his Anishinaabe paddling partner Billy Magee covered 2,000 miles – the remotest of them unexplored by non-natives – in 144 days on trail. The two […]

The 2008 Thompson Brigade canoe caravan reached Winnipeg yesterday on its 2,200 mile trip from Rocky Mountain House, Alberta to Thunder Bay, Ontario. The Winnipeg Free Press ran THIS story and shot THIS video to record the arrival of the ten 23-foot-long north canoes at the site of Fort Garry. The Thompson Brigade paddlers are […]

Two canoeists were rescued Monday from the swollen Boone River near Webster City, Iowa after they were dumped from their canoe. In the story told, HERE, in the Webster City Daily Freeman-Journal, the two men, brothers Heber and Donald Johnson, aged 77 and 67, respectively, we spotted from shore by a passer-by who alerted authorities. As the newspaper story […]

Back in May, HERE, we told you about recent high school graduates Sean Bloomfield and Colton Witte who were attempting to replicate Erc Sevareid and Walter Port’s 1930 canoe trip from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Sevareid, of course, made the trip famous in his book Canoeing with the Cree. Bloomfield and Witte have made remarkable […]

Thanks to a mention in the New York Times’ recent “31 Places to Go This Summer” story, HERE, a Manitoba outfitter’s unique blending of canoeing and yoga is causing a stir. Northern Soul, a Winnipeg-based canoe and adventure outfitter, offers a weekend package of canoe camping and yoga. Clients paddle to yoga-friendly campsites to practice […]

Jay Andrew Olson, 20, of Ely, Minnesota, became the fourth defendant to plead guilty to charges stemming from an August, 2007 incident where six local moterboaters allegedly terrorized campers in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. You can read a comprehensive story on the case HERE, from the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Olson, as the operator […]

Let’s kick off the month with a story . . . New Hampshire Magazine’s Jack Noon, who writes mostly about “history, fishing,  or local humor” offers THIS rambling story about his $5.00, “flatwater” canoe. The story will appear in the anthology, “Live Free or Croak: a Storyteller’s Guide to New Hampshire,” due out later this summer.

Have you ever wanted to know more about the people who design the canoes we paddle? Have you wondered what combination of skills and interests it takes to envision and actualize a new canoe design? We at Canoeing.com have, so we recently spent some time with Bob Brown, who has designed boats for Wenonah, Bell, […]