CANOE NORTH ADVENTURES
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Canoe North Adventures has specialized in taking Ontario paddlers for the last ten years to the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The company evolved out of requests from friends, family and pottery customers to be included in some of the adventures that they had heard about from Al and Lin in conversation and in the Farmhouse Pottery newsletter.

In keeping with this rather humble beginning, Canoe North gathers most of its clients by word-of-mouth and through pottery customers who visit Al's studio in the Hockley Valley outside of Toronto. Groups are carefully constructed based on compatibility and skill levels. Since Canoe North does not advertise, its has the ability to build exceptional trips with interesting people. Canoe North has had great success in designing trips where paddlers step out of the canoes at the end of the trip with huge respect for their fellow paddlers.

Since Lin and Al guide all their own trips, they take only a few trips each year. Always between one and three trips although one year they guided five trips. That was just too many as they are busy at home the rest of the year with their other businesses.

They train their paddlers here in Ontario on the Grand River near their home. These pre-trip training sessions ensure that the group knows each other before arriving in the north and that safety on the river is enhanced right from the moment the canoes are put in the water. Lin and Al are two of the safest guides in the far north taking care on the river that each paddler grows their skill each day ensuring that river dynamics on all sections of the river are clearly understood.

In recent years, Canoe North Adventures has been rated as one of the top guiding companies in North America by its clients. Three hundred and fifty other guiding companies share this honour with only two Canadian companies being listed.

They guarantee that each and every one of their trips are a huge amount of fun. They are life-changing canoe trips. They know that these trips deliver the dream that you have of travelling to the far north.

Our trips include the following: pre-trip training sessions on the Grand River; pre-trip planning sessions; assistance in acquiring personal gear; post-trip get-together; management of travel arrangements; help with extended travel; airport shuttles in town of departure; all land and river transportation; complimentary CNA T-shirts and ball-caps; two experienced river guides; safety and river skills training; extensive medical trip; satellite phone; all gourmet meals and happy hour on the river; final night dinner after the trip; high quality canoes, paddles, PFDs, personal packs and stuff sacks; and all high quality canoe trip gear and equipment.

Canoe North would love the opportunity to travel with you. Please visit our home and studio to see slide shows or have us do a presentation to your group or club.