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The Way Of The Canoe….Sigurd Olsen Said It All
“The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten. It is an antidote to insecurity, the open door to waterways of ages past and a way of life with profound and abiding...
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New Art Work….Liberty Village Art Crawl
Latest painting: Later revised….just some small details to add to moose, beaver and vegetation: Finished painting….finally….with some details: After a lot of thought I finally attended my first art...
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Chestnut Canoes….Bill Mason And His Chestnuts….Some Of My Favourite Chestnut...
The all-wood canoes had aesthetic appeal, they were light and much more durable than their bark predecessors, and they were used by latter-day explorers such as the Tyrrell brothers, but for use in...
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Giving Thanks
When in doubt, keep the open end up, and the pointed end forward. –Signature from online canoeing forum. Voyage upon life’s sea, To yourself be true, And, whatever your lot may be, Paddle your own...
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A Canoe ‘Tip’ From Omer Stringer
Canoes don’t tip, people just fall out of them. – Omer Stringer From a previous blog post here is Omer’s story: Omer Stringer was defintely a legendary figure in canoeing. Here’s some info on him from...
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Anishinaabe Babamadizwin: A Journey By Canoe
Overview: The Ojibway or Anishinaabe people were canoe people. Taking a canoe trip certainly gets one back to basics….and in the case of Anishinaabe even back to one’s traditions. This is very true...
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Remembering….
I’ve written about Remembrance Day here before, such as Remembrance Day Remembered…..Silence Is Golden….And A Time To Think: Yesterday was Remembrance Day. Like most Canadians I took time at 11 am to...
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Henri Vaillancourt: Master Birchbark Canoe Builder
Henri Vaillancourt is well known as a birch bark canoe builder. I first learned of Henri through John McPhee’s book The Survival of the Bark Canoe….an amazing story (see John McPhee: Survival of the...
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Wipper Lecture: “Becoming Kirk Wipper: The Story of the Museum’s Founder”
Nov 09 2013, 1:00pm – 4:00pm EST ON, Peterborough, K9J 5K4, 910 Monaghan Rd SAVE THE DATE! Wipper Lecture is on its way! The 2013 Wipper lecturer is Dr. Beverley Haun. Dr. Haun will be speaking about...
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Why Canoeing Is Better Than Sex????
I would now like to present the reasons for Why Canoeing Is Better Than Sex????: Why Canoeing Is Better Than Sex: 18 – You don’t have to hide your canoeing magazines….Canoeroots is just one of many...
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Anishinaabe Babamadizwin: A Journey By Canoe
OVERVIEW: The Ojibway or Anishinaabe people were canoe people. Taking a canoe trip certainly gets one back to basics….and in the case of Anishinaabe even back to one’s traditions. This is very true...
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The Old Canoe By George Marsh
I offer this poem The Old Canoe by George Marsh, taken from the WCHA website, http://www.wcha.org/literature/theoldcanoe.html: The Old Canoe By George Marsh (Scribner’s Magazine, October 1908) My seams...
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INDIGENOUS & INGENIOUS Saturday November 23rd At Gladstone Hotel
INDIGENOUS & INGENIOUS Four Unique Artists. Four Creative Directions. Indigenous & Ingenious, a one-day pop-up show and sale of works by Indigenous artists will be held at The Gladstone Hotel...
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Some Seasonal Cartoons From Paul Mason’s Bubble Street….And Some Of His Cool...
A couple of weeks left before Christmas….hard to find a gift for that paddler on your shopping list????….especially if they have all the paddles and boats they need????….OK OK you can never have too...
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‘Twas Out Paddling….
‘Twas out paddling my favourite wood canvas canoe mere days before Christmas The lake still being open with weather so balmy that no snow had yet come to pass Still the water was more than quite frigid...
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The Thirteen Moons of ‘Nishness’
We are nearly at the end of another year. So this got me to thinking about the calendar….the months in the year….plus being that we are near to Christmas….so I thought I might write something based on...
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Show/Sale In Sutton December 9th
Come out to the sale/show at the Georgina Art Centre and Gallery on Saturday Dec.9th:
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Have Paddle Will Travel
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you...
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The Art Of The Wood Canvas Canoe
My two old canoes are works of art, embodying the feeling of all canoemen for rivers and lakes and the wild country they were meant to traverse. They were made in the old tradition when there was time...
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