The dawn of the modern history of the canoe can be traced, apparently, to the summer of 1856, when four guys from Peterborough, Ontario, embarked on a camping trip lugging a 200-pound dugout. After ...
LAKE MINCHUMINA — “Hey,” my sister Julie commented in mid-summer this year. “We missed our 50th anniversary of the Canoe Trip!” That’s right. Fifty years ago, on a sunny mid-June day, our 17-year-old ...