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WHAT'S NEW
Building a Truly Canadian Canoe – Eh!
It was a plaid boat that started this whole crazy canoe chronicle. Yep,
the same “what’s up ye kilt” plaid. I was looking for
something different in a canoe; not the design itself but the general
look of it. After all, filmmaker and canoeist, Bill Mason, had his symbolic
red canoe acting as an icon for wilderness paddling and Group of Seven
painter, Tom Thomson, preferred blue so the trout he was fishing for never
saw him float by overhead. So, when I heard about London Ontario’s
Nova Craft Canoe Company proclamation that they could place any cotton
or polyester material that could be purchased at a fabric store within
the canoe itself, I jumped at the idea. I went for a greenish plaid, thinking
the lumber jacket red could end up looking slightly tacky. Why? Well,
because it was different – and I like different.
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Scary changes proposed to the NWPA
Please read the attached notice and forward it on through your networks.
This information is just making its way through the paddling communities.
Les Amis de la Rivière Kipawa knows a lot about the NWPA and the way that
federal bureaucrats would like to see it applied. We have legal case against
PWGSC on navigation rights on the Kipawa River in the Federal Court of
Appeals right now.
We find it ironic that while we are asking a judge to insist that the
federal government follow the NWPA and assess the environmental impacts
of projects on navigation, they are actually trying to do an end-run and
re-write the act.
Note the scope and breadth of the changes the are seeking is shocking.
It will forever change and diminish, if not eliminate, the public right
of navigation in Canada.
Also note, the website www.canadianrivers.net which is referenced on both
the attached documents will be up in a day or two.
Also note Les Amis de la Rivière Kipawa is hosting a Vigil for Rivers
on Parliament Hill on Canadian Rives Day June 8 from 7 to 9 pm.
For more information on our court case and other stuff, visit our website:
www.kipawariver.ca
Doug Skeggs
Director of River Protection
Les Amis de la Rivière Kipawa
downloads:
Harper Government Wants
to De-Water the Navigable Waters Protection Act (pdf)
'Vigil for Rivers'
Poster (pdf)
Dear Paddlers:
Last year in a CBC poll, the canoe was named one of the Seven Wonders of Canada. To celebrate, the good folks at The Canadian Canoe Museum threw a party on the Thursday before Canada Day.
This year, we'd like to keep the celebrations going. There's going to be another party at the Lift Lock in Peterborough on Thursday, June 26th and this time around we're calling it National Canoe Day (celebrating the Wonders of the Canoe) hoping to lay the groundwork for an annual event during Celebrate Canada! (the 11 days leading up to July 1st).
Last year, there were people across Canada who heard about the Peterborough celebration and wrote in with details of things canoe they were doing to join in on the fun. This year, we're actively inviting all Canadians, wherever you may be, to join in on that day (or during that week) by doing something cool with your canoe. The Canadian Canoe Museum has set up a web site to keep track of photos and stories of all the things that will be happening, hoping to build momentum for citizen-driven designation of June 26th as an official National Canoe Day.
Attached are a flyer and poster with all the details. Hope you'll consider joining in on the fun to celebrate the Canoe as a Wonder of Canada.
For more information, you can check out The Canadian Canoe Museum Website or call 1-888-34-CANOE for details.
Kevin Callan.
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Canoe Route Clean-Up Destined to be a Success Story.
We all do it. We sit around and complain about canoe route maintenance, ramble on and
on about how the government should be doing more, grow more and more paranoid over
the protection of “lost” routes, question the mentality of those who leave all that garbage
and toilet-paper mounds at the campsite, or scratch our heads over why anyone would
leave just one sock at the end of the a portage (I’m still trying to figure that one out).
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