Saturday, January 31st, 2004
I just saw an interesting news story on
Newsworld. Apparently there's a museum in
Peterborough called
The Canadian Canoe Museum!
Since I was a little boy I've loved canoes and canoeing! My
dad started me young with canoe trips into lost swamps and forgotten rivers. (In fact, I still remember the day he bought our first canoe!) I loved exploration trips! Down old roads no-one remembered anymore to drop a canoe in the river; multi-day overnight trips with trail mix, sleeping bag, tent, jack-knife, and all the other essential tools of camping. These are some of my fondest memories.
So when I heard the museum was in Peterborough, I sat up! Joanne and I are visiting
near Peterborough on our tenth anniversary! Maybe we could make it a day-trip to wander through the aisles and reminisce a memory or two?
But there's bad news. Apparently the Mad Cow scare "mooed" away tourists, and last October the board of directors regrettfully closed things up. How sad! I would have loved to poke around corners and see the beautiful, hand-crafted exhibits-- many of which have been built by aboriginal peoples!
So I guess we'll have to save that for our next trip to Peterborough. Maybe everyone will have forgotten about Cows (and chicken-flus) by then and we can enjoy a great cultural icon.
~Jason
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