The Canoe Museum will be moving to a new building in the near future. At that time this cache will be archived as it can not be moved. If you want it best grab it in the next few months!
The Peterborough area is generally regarded as the birthplace of the modern canoe. Inspired by the First Nations rugged wooden dugouts and delicate birch bark canoes.
The Canadian Canoe Museum is a unique national heritage centre that explores the canoe’s enduring significance to the peoples of Canada, through an exceptional collection of canoes, kayaks and paddled watercraft. It is a family-friendly museum with more than 100 canoes and kayaks on display. For a small fee visitors can enjoy interactive, hands-on galleries, a scavenger hunt, model canoe building and puppet theatre for children.
Founded on a collection of the late Professor Kirk Wipper, and established in Peterborough, Ontario, in 1997, the museum’s holdings now number more than 600 canoes, kayaks and paddled watercraft.
The museum’s artifacts range from the great dugouts of the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest to the singular bark canoes of the Beothuk of Newfoundland; from the skin-on-frame kayaks of northern peoples from Baffin Island in the east to the Mackenzie River Delta in the northwest to the all-wood and canvas-covered craft manufactured by companies with names like Herald, Peterborough, Chestnut, Lakefield and Canadian. Over the years paddled watercraft from as far away as Paraguay and the Amazon have helped the Museum expand its reach and scope to include International examples.
There is no need to enter the Museum to claim this cache as a find. Simply email the CO the answers to the following questions.
1. New question.. On the East wall how many Canoes (Or parts) are there and how many Kayaks?
2. On the bench near the entrance, what is the year the bench was dedicated and to whom?
Please post a picture of your self, your gps or a trackable near the entrance.
Virtual Rewards 2.0 - 2019/2020
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between June 4, 2019 and June 4, 2020. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 2.0 on the Geocaching Blog.