Fri, 30 Jan 2004

Jan 30, 2004, 22:15 [home/hobbies/canoeing]
The Canoe Museum?!?

I just saw an interesting news story on Newsworld. Apparently there’s a museum in Peterborough called The Canadian Canoe Museum!

Since I was a little boy I’ve loved canoes and canoeing! My dad started me young with canoe trips into lost swamps and forgotten rivers. (In fact, I still remember the day he bought our first canoe!) I loved exploration trips! Down old roads no-one remembered anymore to drop a canoe in the river; multi-day overnight trips with trail mix, sleeping bag, tent, jack-knife, and all the other essential tools of camping. These are some of my fondest memories.

So when I heard the museum was in Peterborough, I sat up! Joanne and I are visiting near Peterborough on our tenth anniversary! Maybe we could make it a day-trip to wander through the aisles and reminisce a memory or two?

But there’s bad news. Apparently the Mad Cow scare “mooed” away tourists, and last October the board of directors regrettfully closed things up. How sad! I would have loved to poke around corners and see the beautiful, hand-crafted exhibits— many of which have been built by aboriginal peoples!

So I guess we’ll have to save that for our next trip to Peterborough. Maybe everyone will have forgotten about Cows (and chicken-flus) by then and we can enjoy a great cultural icon.

~Jason

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