Tom McCloud ) writes:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:20:57 GMT, akasharkbow
wrote:
The river of money that kept the Canadian Canoe Museum afloat has all but
dried up.

On Wednesday, the national heritage museum located in the former Outboard
Marine building in Peterborough locked its doors indefinitely.

A tremendous loss to the canoeing community. That was a GREAT
facility. Large, well done. One-of-a-kind canoes and artifacts.
Educational. I certainly did MY part to keep it open at the gift
shop. All canoeists should hope a way can be found to keep the
museum going. Tom McCloud


part of the problem with grants from Heritage Canada may have been that so
many of the caoes are not Canadian. K Wipper(?) who put so much into
building the collection privtely collected canoes from all over the globe.
maybe they should apply to the UN for funding.


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On 21 Oct 2003 01:49:44 GMT, (William R.
Watt) wrote:

Tom McCloud ) writes:
On Wednesday, the national heritage museum located in the former Outboard
Marine building in Peterborough locked its doors indefinitely.

part of the problem with grants from Heritage Canada may have been that so
many of the caoes are not Canadian. K Wipper(?) who put so much into
building the collection privtely collected canoes from all over the globe.

I am not in a position to compare statistics with you, but one of my
observations about the holdings of the museum, at least those that
were on display in January, was that there were very few canoes built
south of the border. Tom McCloud