Canadian Canoe Museum

• Canadian Canoe Museum celebrates new lakeside location in Peterborough, Ont.

  The Canadian Canoe Museum is now open on Ashburnham Drive on the shore of Little Lake, showcasing hundreds of watercraft and other artifacts. The museum first opened in 1997.

  Canada

  May 13
  
• Ontario lieutenant-governor visits Peterborough area, meets local leaders

  Edith Dumont, Ontario's lieutenant-governor, visited city hall, Trent University and Lang Pioneer Village on the first day of her official visit to Peterborough and area.

  Politics

  May 10
  
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• $1.7M gift supports Canadian Canoe Museum’s waterfront campus, Gathering Circle in Peterborough

  The museum's Lakefront Campus will be a 5.3-acre, multi-purpose outdoor classroom with 1,200 feet of shoreline, canoe and kayak launches and canoe dock and house and more.

  Education

  Mar 30, 2023
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• Opening of new Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough delayed until late summer or early fall

  Industry-wide construction challenges have delayed the opening of the new Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ont., but they aim to be oars-up in time for paddling season.

  Canada

  Jan 26, 2023
• Canadian Canoe Museum selects Silver Bean Café as the new museum’s café operator

  The Silver Bean Café will begin the new partnership next summer with a café at the museum that can accommodate 30 people seated inside and 32 seated outside on the terrace.

  Canada

  Oct 6, 2022
• Family of Peterborough historian, canoeist donates $250,000 to new Canadian Canoe Museum

  Shelagh Grant, who died in 2020, was longtime supporter of the Canadian Canoe Museum and was an avid canoeist with many adventures on northern rivers in Canada.

  Education

  Aug 18, 2022
• Governor General grants viceregal patronage to Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough

  The museum aims to reconnect watercraft to their Indigenous communities and share more stories and perspectives through new exhibits at the new museum site opening in summer 2023.

  Canada

  Aug 10, 2022
• Feds provide $12.2M for 33 tourism, infrastructure projects in Peterborough, Kawarthas, Northumberland

  The City of Peterborough is receiving $750,000 to help construct its downtown urban park.

  Economy

  Jul 12, 2022
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• Storm damage forces closure of Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough until June 4

  'Our main building's roof bore the brunt of most of the damage, though, with the wind lifting up the membrane and tearing it apart.'

  Canada

  May 26, 2022
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• Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough prepares to move world’s largest canoe and kayak collection

  'It's more than 600 vessels. Measured nose to tail, it’s a 3 km long portage and we are preparing these now to be moved to their new home,' says curator Jeremy Ward.

  Features

  Feb 17, 2022