Our canoe raffle was so successful last year, we are happy to be running it again this year. We will have an online raffle with the prize of a handmade wooden canoe. The raffle will run from April 15 to May 21 with a draw on May 28! Buy lots of tickets and share the raffle with your friends and families!
Proceeds from this raffle are so important to our work. Our summer programs hire young people starting their careers as environmental researchers- the funding supports staff who can complete surveys, assessments, water sampling, property owner engagement and much more! The funding also supports equipment that we need for our field work- probes, containers, boots, and more!
We thank every one of you in advance, for buying tickets and helping us continue our work on the river!
More about this beautiful canoe:









- Built in Ontario at Wards Canoe around 1990, and lovingly cared for by a single owner.
- The canoe weighs a mere 65 pounds!
- Hull is classic shape with up turned bow and stern and slight tumblehome, a beauty
- All structure is wood, hand fitted and fastened in place with through bolts or screws
- Oak or hard maple used throughout and finished with teak oil. Maintenance through the years also teak oil as it penetrates and builds a n extra smooth protective finish
- Material is polyester resin reinforced with glass fiber with shape strips and keel strip cast in place. Colour is gelcoat applied in mould first.
- Self material bow and stern buoyancy tanks cast in place
- Paddles also handmade at Wards are hardwood, with “tee” handles, teak oil finished like new. We kept the set we used which are quite beat up: rocks and tent pole duty
- All wood structure has stood the ravages of use and shows NO stress or cracking or damage whatsoever
- Hull bottom has a multitude of scratches in the gelcoat from rocks and only a keen eye can find one that is deep enough to expose a glass fiber