This March break, learn the story of Canada through one of the country’s smaller museums – and try some yoga under a canoe while you’re at it
The Canadian Canoe Museum has room to showcase only about 100 of its 600 canoes and kayaks but its new facility will be able to display more.Modern canoeists might see the watercraft as a pleasant and peaceful past-time, or perhaps a sport. But as theshows, canoes, kayaks and other paddle-propelled vessels were crucial to the trade and transportation needs of early Indigenous populations and then to Europeans who explored the vast frontiers of what is now Canada.
Kirk Wipper, a professor and pioneer in nature education, founded the museum and provided much of the collection, which has grown to more than 600 watercraft – so enormous that the museum is planning to move into a new and larger facility that can show most or all of them. The $65-million, environmentally sensitive space is scheduled to open in 2022 and be located, appropriately, on water’s edge at the Peterborough Lift Lock, itself a tourist attraction.
, located in a 65,000-square-foot hangar that once served as an air base for Ontario-government service planes. Just as at the Canadian Canoe Museum, various crafts hang from the ceiling, which is all the more appropriate given we tend to see planes from beneath. The roster includes float planes, bush planes and water bombers used in firefighting, some dating to the early 1900s.
Oil and gas may be the industry that’s given much of Western Canada its riches, but farming has always been its backbone, generating wheat, oilseed, meat and other agricultural products to sustain not only the region but also the rest of the country and beyond.
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