At Teddington just before the tidal section of the river starts is Royal Canoe Club, said to be the oldest in the world and founded in 1866.

* 1950 – Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash ; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.

During the American Revolution, the Upper Creeks sided with the British, fighting alongside the Chickamauga ( Lower Cherokee ) warriors of Dragging Canoe, in the Chickamauga Wars, against white settlers in present-day Tennessee.

His most popular works are three large bronze sculptures, two depicting a canoe filled with human and animal figures: one black, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, at the Canadian Embassy, Washington, D. C., in the United States ; and one green, The Jade Canoe, at Vancouver International Airport, in British Columbia ; and the third, Chief of the Undersea World, depicting a breaching orca, at the Vancouver Aquarium.

In the adjoining Canadian province of New Brunswick, from the late 19th century until being disbanded in 1979, the Chestnut Canoe Company, along with the Old Town Canoe Company in Maine, became the pre-eminent producers of wood-and-canvas canoes.

* Limestone County Canoe & Kayak Trail — a along the Elk River for canoeing with 5 access sites.

The last was " The White Canoe: an Opera Seria for Hand Puppets ," for which Gorey wrote the libretto, with a score by the composer Daniel James Wolf.

There are a number of canoe liveries that operate on the Au Sable River, with Penrod's Canoe Livery receiving the People's Choice Award for five out of the last six years, and Manistee River nearby.

Ely is the largest " jumping off " town for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, with extensive outfitting and other services.

View from Long Pond Mountain of waters of the St. Regis Canoe Area ( with the Adirondack High Peaks | High Peaks in the background )

* The Saint Regis Canoe Area – A wilderness area with 58 ponds ( no motorized vehicles are allowed ).

the Upper Klamath Lake Canoe Trail, with Ponderosa Pine, and Populus tremuloides | Quaking Aspen in Fall foliage

It consisted of a log stockade, with a few log cabins inside, to which nearby settlers were to repair in event of attack, as they did in 1776 when harassed by Dragging Canoe.

Viking organise national ranking Canoe Slalom events at the Cardington Artificial Slalom Course ( CASC ), which was the first artificial whitewater course in the UK, opened in 1982 adjacent to Cardington Lock, in a partnership with the Environment Agency who use it as a flood relief channel.

* A page on historical Canoe Yawls-many with ketch and some with sloop rigs

During the close fishing season the river may be paddled by canoe between Brockham and Fetcham with an appropriate license from the British Canoe Union.

The Peterborough Canoe Company was founded in 1893, with the factory being built on the site of the original Adam Scott mill.

Canoe camping is quite popular as a camping opportunity, although the equipment needed is more expensive than that needed when camping with a car.

The ICF ( International Canoe Federation ) has had a limited interest in Dragon Boat Sport since 2005 ( some 3 decades following the start of the modern era of the international sport in Hong Kong ), organising an annual Dragon Boat Championship only for the small number of its Member Canoe Federations, approx 10, with an interest in Dragon Boating.

But all have evolved into different, distinctive sports, with Outrigger racing, War Canoe racing.

* The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and the Spirit of Haida Gwaii ( with photographs by Ulli Steltzer ) – 1991

Outrigger Canoe Club team mate Dennis Berg was quoted in the summer 2011 issue of Volleyball USA magazine saying of Selleck, " Tom was a great team mate, appreciative of being included with such a talented and experienced group, practicing and playing hard when his Magnum schedule permitted.

Some notable examples include Canoe Lake and the Petawawa, Nipissing, Amable du Fond, Madawaska, and Tim rivers.

A notable exhibit started in October 2001, when the Museum gained further prominence with the launch of Reflections: The Land, the People and the Canoe.

He was named after his paternal grandfather, who was killed in 1777 at his home near today's Rogersville, Tennessee, by Cherokee Indians led by Dragging Canoe.

The earliest Cherokee occupation dates from Dragging Canoe, who in 1776 separated himself and moved downriver from the main tribe to establish American Indian resistance ( see Chickamauga Wars ) to European settlement in the southeastern United States.

Gamehaven Scouting has volunteers who are certified by the American Canoe Association in both canoeing and kayaking.

There Tecumseh met Dragging Canoe, a famous leader who was leading a resistance movement against U. S. expansion.

The old Leith Church is the site of the grave of Tom Thomson, a noted Canadian landscape painter who died in mysterious circumstances at Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park in 1917.

Dragging Canoe left the Sycamore Shoals treaty grounds taking those who were loyal to him and his way of thinking into southeastern Kentucky, to an area known as Cannatuckahoe because of the Cherokee Tuckahoe people settled in the area.

Others believe it comes from " junk enoo ", the Scottish settlers ' reference to the parades, meaning " junk enough "; or " John Canoe ," the name of an African tribal chief who, in the 17th century, demanded the right to celebrate with his people even after being brought to the West Indies in slavery.

La Chasse-galerie also known as " The Bewitched Canoe " or " The Flying Canoe " is a popular French-Canadian tale of voyageurs who make a deal with the devil, a variant of the Wild Hunt.

Fearing an invasion by Dragging Canoe, who was receiving arms from the British, the Overmountain settlers built Fort Caswell ( commonly called Fort Watauga ) to guard the Watauga settlements and Eaton's Station to guard the Holston settlements.

In September 1782, Sevier set out on an expedition against Dragging Canoe and the Chickamaugas, who were now concentrated in a string of villages in northern Georgia and Alabama.

Colonel John Armstrong, who pursued the Lenape along the path, camping at Canoe Place in early September before moving on to destroy the village of Kittanning.

The many topics covered include Expo 67, the World's Fair held in Montreal ; the Centennial Voyageur Canoe Pageant ; the Stanley Cup finals between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens ( still the last such pairing ); and the rising popularity of future Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who at the time was serving as Minister of Justice in Lester B. Pearson's cabinet.

Tsiyu Gansini ( ᏥᏳ ᎦᏅᏏᏂ ), " He is dragging his canoe ", known to whites as Dragging Canoe, ( c. 1738 – March 1, 1792 ) was a Cherokee war chief who led a band of Cherokee against colonists and United States settlers.

The final portion of the Line of Property in Pennsylvania, called the Purchase line in that State, was fixed in 1773 by representatives from the Six Nations and Pennsylvania who met at a spot called Canoe Place at the confluence of West Branch of the Susquehanna River and Cush Cushion Creek in what is now Cherry Tree, Pennsylvania.

Other expeditions to the Verdon included Martel's team the following year ; Robert de Joly who in 1928 was the first to completely cross the Verdon Gorge, passing over the Imbut ; explorer and filmmaker Albert Mahuzier in 1938 and 1939 ; a group of Scouts in 1945 and the Canoe Club of France in 1946 ; and Roger Verdegen, who made several expeditions in a boat made from animal hides and natural rubber, and became an authority on the Verdon.

Peter Lawler and Chris Baker, both from Richmond Canoe Club, and who had canoed for Britain at international level, took up the challenge, and succeeded in beating Paganelli and Evans, who had won the race for the Paras in 1968, 1969 and 1970.

Following a 1777 peace treaty between Native Americans and the American settlers of the Overhill settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains during the American War of Independence, followers of the Cherokee chief Dragging Canoe ( who opposed the peace ), separated from the tribe and relocated to what is today southeastern Tennessee, near the borders with Georgia and the area later known as Alabama.

Soon after, it became the permanent base of operations and was named the Charles L. Sommers Wilderness Canoe Base, taking the name of a great scouter who was the first Chairman of Region X. Mr. Sommers was an avid Base supporter, canoe trip organizer and participant.

Warriors across the frontier increased attacks on European-American settlers, in addition to the Chickamauga followers of Dragging Canoe, who were already in the midst of the Chickamauga wars.

The ACA was founded in 1880 by Scottish lawyer, John MacGregor, who had founded the British Royal Canoe Club ( RCC ) in 1866.