canoe quote:

"It is difficult to find in life any event which so effectually condenses nervous sensation into the shortest possible space of time as does the work of shooting, or running an immense rapid. There is no toil, no heart-breaking labour about it, but as much coolness, dexterity, and skill as a man can throw into the work of hand, eye, and head; knowledge of when to strike and how to do it; knowledge of water and rock, and of the one hundred combinations which rock and water can assume- for these two things, rock and water, taken in the abstract, fail as completely to convey any idea of their fierce embracings in the throes of a rapid as the fire burning quietly in a drawing-room fireplace fails to convey the idea of a house wrapped and sheeted in flames."

Sir William Francis Butler, (key figure with the North West Mounted Police) in The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America (1872)

This virtual organization exists to serve its members, a group of friends in the vicinity of Toronto, Ontario, Canada who like to paddle together. We don't have any meetings. We don't have any rules. We don't have any officers or structure. We just like each other's company and we like to paddle canoes.

Feel free to peruse our upcoming events database and read our trip logs.

SYOTW