KITCHENER -- Slipping along the banks of Ontario's Grand River in a canoe, it's easy to imagine yourself as a pioneering explorer searching for new trade routes.

The Mail on Sunday's Max Wooldridge got to grips with canoeing at Ontario's Middle Madawask river. He also crafted his own wooden paddle at the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough.

Peterborough is a riverside city in the picturesque Kawarthas region, about 1.5 hours from Toronto. According to Reader's Digest, it's known as the "Canoe Capital of the World," with countless ...

Paddling on these bodies might leave you wondering if you're the first to to disturb their seemingly untouched waters, but that doesn't mean they're inaccessible. Some of the rivers and lakes have ...

First Nations people used the canoe as the original mode of water transport some 20,000 years ago to trade, hunt and ship. There’s a mix of lakes, rivers and bays for canoeing across the ...

Treaties Recognition Week in Ontario runs from Nov. 5 to 11. The Two Row Wampum is recognized each year in southern Ontario in a special way — a 10-day canoe trip down the Grand River.

Two siblings-in-law from northern Ontario are preparing to participate in a gruelling 1,500-kilometre canoe and kayak race ...

Paddle the Spanish River (paddlethespanishriver.com) also offer canoe packages, including a 145km, five-to-seven day trip from East Branch, Duke Lake to Agnew Lake Lodge. Travel Essentials ...

Scenes of tranquil rivers, ... Ontario Canoeing & Fishing: A Canadian Wilderness ... This 1930s film highlights the lives of Ontario forest rangers and their crucial work in fire prevention and ...

The convincing argument came in 1977 while canoeing Ontario’s Steel River in my woodstrip solo canoe. I used a “solo C-stroke” almost exclusively to stay on course.

We may all be talking about Canada’s 150th anniversary, but it’s a milestone for this province of ours, too. On July 1, 1867, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia entered into Confederation.