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.

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.

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 ...

Our group of about 40 Wilderness Adventurers club members camped on the river at Jessup’s Farm, in the Eastern Ontario town of Palmer Rapids, about 40 minutes northeast of Bancroft.

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 ...

Between Quetico, Woodland Caribou and Wabakimi is Crown Land, a paddler's playground replete with so many lakes and rivers that many are still unnamed. ... Remote Canoeing in Ontario's Crown Land.

Steeles Avenue to Lake Ontario: Part two of a 26-kilometre canoe trip down the Rouge River with Jim Robb of Friends of the Rouge Watershed and Dave Harvey of Parks People.

All are based along the river in Ontario and provide shuttles when you're done paddling. Campsites along the river are $10 per night and are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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 ...

Established in 1893, Ontario’s 7,653-square-kilometer Algonquin Provincial Park is the oldest provincial park in Canada. It became a park for a reason and that reason involves paddling.

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.