Two hundred kilometres north of Toronto, Ontario lays the town of Huntsville and the western terminus of Ontario Highway 60. This two lane, undulating blacktop...
Great post about Algonquin Park. A bit long but a good read with some interesting facts. You're right about one thing..."there's really no other place quite...
Hello, greetings from Brazil. Yes, I´m a brazilian paddler in a Ontario,CA group!! :) Well, I´ve been in Canada 3 times, but paddled just once, what caused...
Hello paddlers.... I also am new to the group. To introduce myself... I am primarily an Adirondack backcountry paddler and guide, with several boats including...
Hi Everyone, I am also new to the group. Name is Laurie. I'm an avid paddler and I own an online magazine for paddlers and backpackers. We have a print version...
Laurie, Don't leave us hanging... what is your magazine? I'd like to take a look. I also dabble heavily in dehydration gourmetdom. We'll have to exchange...
Hi Paul, It's out of date but will be updated very soon - we are going through a major overhaul and you will see a brand new site over the next few weeks! The...
Hi new to this group I bought a 17 foot canoe (coleman) this fall and saw on the web about canoeing on the Rideau Canal. Do you have any suggestions as to...
... about ... where ... Every time I pass thru Smiths Falls on my way to Cobden, On, I think, Gee, that would be a swell place to paddle as I cross the Rideau....
Grandfather was always in the woods. Things he didn't know about forests, lakes and streams - and the creatures that inhabited them - were not worth knowning....
Happy New Year Everyone... Wow the weather has been warm - almost makes me want to go canoeing... except I have a habit of falling in. This New Years' Eve and...
Happy 2004 to all. With the weather around Southern Ontario the way its been I can't help but thinking of paddling (however my skiing thoughts are taking a...
Yep I am still a member of this group but will not join where group paddling is concerned since I live in the Netherlands and at the moment can't use my legs....
Hello All! Just wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself... I am and always have a lover of anything outdoors... Two Christmas' ago, I somewhat...
Congratulations with your fiance and truly romantic the way he proposed (is that the right word?). My wife sent me to a canoe club some years ago and now we...
I wonder if somebody could help me with a couple of links to sites showing and instruction about Canadian style paddling. I have tried free style donw here in...
Rudolf, Check the Indian Stroke at this link. Hope that's waht you're looking for. Regards, Paul http://www.gregcons.com/canoe/techniques_strokes.htm...
Hey everyone, So what's everyone up to? I know I've been on the quiet side lately. Mostly because I've been updating the graphical appearance of my site. If...
Becky Mason's video on Soloing (you can see it at my ste www.outdooradventurecanada.com - we don't sell it though) has a great demonstration of the Canadian...
... Lu and Paul, As I learned and use them, the Canadian and Indian are really two quite different strokes, as is mentioned the gregcons.com web page...
Lu, Please feel free to post any info you have re: the Canoe Museum. I first visited the collection when it was housed in a barn near Dorset, was up in...
Blackstone Lake is named for an Ojibwe Chief of that name, famous in our area for his last heroic trek, during the 1918 flu epidemic, in which he endeavoured...