2018 Canoeing Photo Contest
That wraps up another year of our canoeing photo contest, which was also the most successful one we’ve ever held! So thank you to everyone who entered!
We also wanted to sent another thank you out to Valhalla Pure Outfitters for their gracious donation of an e-gift card. If you’re in the market for any camping gear or presents this year, please head over to their website and have a look (that’s where I bought my SealLine dry bags).
Another big thank you to Unlostify for their map donation… which also makes the perfect stocking stuffer for anyone on your list!
And finally a big thank you to Kevin Callan for autographing his latest book. It must be selling well because we purchased the last copy from our local bookstore.
Here’s the moment you’ve been waiting for, the three winners are….
First Place
David MacDonnell - Moraine Lake Alberta, early winter.
Second Place
Ed Schaefer - Rain Lake in Algonquin Park
Third Place
James vanRooy - near the beginning of the North Channel of the French River. This crown land beach / campsite was our lunch stop on day 2 of our 4 day trip around 18 Mile island
As the 2018 Canoeing season starts to wind down we look back fondly through the trips we've taken... which means it's time for our yearly photo contest!
The rules are simple...
The contest is open to Canadian residents only
The photo must have been taken in 2018
Send us your best photo of you or your family in a canoe, what you spotted while in your canoe, or even a snapshot of you portaging. What ever you like! Be sure to include where you were too.
Contest ends November 30th. We'll randomly pick three lucky winners as 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. The 1st place winner will get to choose first a single item from the prizes below, followed by 2nd place and 3rd place winners.
How do you enter?
Easy! E-mail us a photo, or send it to us on Facebook or Twitter or tag us on Instagram (and give us a like or follow while you're there!)
The Prizes to choose from
$100 Valhalla Pure Outfitters e-Gift Card. Canadian store with 1000’s of awesome choices of outdoors gear for any season. Fantastic online store and numerous locations in British Columbia and Alberta.
A complete set of maps from Unlostify. Grab all four maps which include West French River, Killarney, Kawartha Highlands and the Massasauga!
An autographed copy of Kevin Callan’s The Top 60 Canoe Routes of Ontario
We look forward to seeing all the submissions!
Susan Windsor-Sheppard - Haliburton Highlands water trail
Rob Genereaux - my little guy enjoying the serenity of the Salmon River near Tamworth, Ontario.
Toby Clipperton - Rain Lake, Algonquin
Laurel Finney - Little Lake, Midland
Hannah Duivenvoorden - Arrowhead Provincial Park in Huntsville, ON. This was our first trip with our pup Roxy and turns out she's a fantastic canoer!
Matthew Loguisto - Algonquin park, near Baron Canyon
Awenda PP - Pam Gosse
Samantha Simpson - Tory Hill Ontario. On Little Eels lake, during our engagement photo shoot
David Faubert - Vermilion River
Christine Plume - Jacques Cartier River in Parc national de la Jacques-Cartier
Bryce - Otter Lake, Tulameen, BC. It was a weekend getaway with my 2 friends and our 3 boys. It got windy and the waves got pretty big but we all had a great time!
Nancy Cannons - Following our boys on our first ever portage canoe trip
Tim Richardson
Late winter canoeing on Nanton lake BC with our granddaughter Peyton
Gabe Rivett-Carnac
Benjamin Morris - Mississippi River, La Crosse, Wisconsin
Kathy Louise - Paddling the Moose Lake Provincial Park Canoe Circuit, British Columbia.. 2 weeks later this area was evacuated due to a forest fire
Jenna Marie - My 4 year-old twins on their first canoe trip. Eels Lake, Ontario
Bill & Jan Corkum - Lunch break on Keji Lake
Tom Miller - Kawartha Highlands - Buzzard Lake - Stares at Beaver Lodges
Cory Morrow - St Croix River, NB
Krista Petrie-Wallace - Lower Madawaska River.
John Snair - Kejimkijik Lake in Kejimkujik National Park, NS. Headed out with the "kids" for the night.
@Camera_5 on Instagram - These “warmer” wintery days have me reminiscing about the summer
Mark Killam
Ken Powell - Yukon River
Mike Kube - Bon Echo PP, Ontario.
Dean Ducas - Paddling along Hoople Island
Mike Lehman - Barron Canyon
Susan Wardley - Rain Lk, Algonquin Park
David Beardtime - Crown land camping with my dog and good friends
Kim Doogan - Backcountry Algonquin trip - picture taken on Ralph Bice Lake
Aimée Hodgins - Canoeing the greats, Lake Huron
Kathryn Clarry - South of the Kingston Mills locks.
James vanRooy - near the beginning of the North Channel of the French River. This crown land beach / campsite was our lunch stop on day 2 of our 4 day trip around 18 Mile island.
Monica Miller - Michipicoten Bay (Wawa), ON this summer on our way to Pukaskwa National Park
Douglas Moyer - Big Salmon River, Yukon
Brad Woods - it represents what our canoes and kayaks mean to us: an opportunity for great fellowship usually shared with friends and family in magical places. Often involving superb camp meals and laughter. - Cave Creek on Whiteswan Lake.
Dave Pattison - Lake Simcoe, Brechin Beach - Out for a calm water paddle with Vicki.
Ryan Robert
Michael McRae - annual canoe trip from Churchill Falls to Gull Island on the Grand River
Megan Westphal - Horseshoe Lake in Whiteshell Provincial Park Manitoba
Kevin Jackson - Booth Lake, Algonquin Park
Kate Stretton - family trip to Florida
Isabelle Verreault - August canoe sleep- La Verendrye QC
Scot Robinson
Breanna Witzke - Bridge Lake, BC.
Michele Ashley - Evening paddle with my son, Norgate Inlet, Georgian Bay
David Bain - Opeongo Lake, Algonquin PP
Andrew Smith - taken on the Yukon River in Aug 2018. A cold, wet, and great trip to Dawson City!
Sara Lavelle - Relaxing after a long paddle at Silent Lake -Bancroft Ontario
Clive Algie - Lunch time on the Lower Spanish
Marci Kosac - Ausable River.. Halloween paddle
Aurélie Maerten - La Mauricie NP, late August 2018. Our then 20 month old son’s very first canoe trip.
Michael Nichols - The Okanagan River. looking south to Vaseaux Lake
Shawn Davis - Sproule Lake - Algonquin Park
Lee Perrie
Gabe Boros - First paddle of 2018, river between Pony and Preacher Lakes NW Ontario. Paddle season is never long enough
Kathy Wright - Nipissing district
Dee Helseth - Checking out the pictographs on Burditt (Clearwater) Lake NW Ontario
Robert Tayman - Grundy Lake Provincial Park
Sue McKinley - Yukon River
Kim Burrell Lavelle - Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park
Dave West - Most saturday mornings my granddaughter, Roxy-dog and I are exploring the quiet reaches of Duffins Crk. They both love canoeing and I love their company.
Ed Schaefer - Rain Lake in Algonquin Park
Dawn Gallegos - Moraine Lake in Banff National Park
Dean Ducas - Hoople Island, Long Sault, Ontario
Johnny Stinson - my Son Hiker taking a break from paddling and fishing the shore of Lake Nictau, Mount Carleton P.P. New Brunswick.
David MacDonnell - Moraine Lake Alberta, early winter.
Hailey Sonntag - Paddling With Mike Ranta
Warren S. Terry - My first canoe trip with my son
Nicole Dubovski - Taken on a portage somewhere between Laura Lake and Evelyn Lake in Temagami. She is wondering how she can keep the boys safe if they paddle too far ahead of us!
Cathy R - Reindeer Lake
Shaun Antle - Our first canoe trips since we were kids.
Adrian Clementino - Foggy mornings in camp call for longer coffee breaks! Photo shot on Big Trout L. In Algonquin Park
Mark Young - 5 day Algonquin Park solo trip
Dan Moon - what better representative to the start of a canoe journey than This Old Girl. She will be getting a couple of new planks, gunnels, and canvas and will be restarting her journey this coming summer.
Leanne Hennessy - Kawartha Highland Provincial Park
Deb Jeffrey - The Ramparts, NWT
Debbie Waelz - Killarney PP
Marian Godfrey-Sonntag - This dam is getting bigger and higher each year! Howery creek, Killarney
Brad Jennings - from the fav campsite of the summer. Cascade Falls, Lake Superior
Wy Akinimo - Point Grondine Park
Shaun Hill
Deryck N. Robertson - Looking towards Farm Lake, Algonquin Park.
Rob Rogers - My little girl on at our secret lake near Temagami
Christina Scheuermann - taken at the Virginia Lake portage in Temagami.
Michelle Duchene - My husband and I spent the summer rebuilding and re canvasing this Chestnut. Pine Lake Ontario. Awaiting many adventures.
Ethan Richter - Taking the family out camping at Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park
Derek Lawday - My scout troop having just returned from there first canoe trip. They enjoyed it so much that we are planning 2 this year.
Julian Baker - 30 day trip from Superior to James Bay. This shot is taken inside the famous Thuderhouse falls canyon along the Missiniabi RIver.
Rusty Julie - 3rd poratge of the day with this little champ. Heading towards the mattawa river for the first time.
Trevor Ralph
Deborah Hine - Ottawa
Carmin Harris - NWT paddling!
Natasha Kent - our new addition
Marianne Balkwill - Jesse Lake in Quetico Provincial Park
Zach Dayboll - Portaging through Mississagi River Provincial Park
Jim Hendry - Raisin River Canoe Race in Saint Andrew’s, Ontario
Pamela Fellbaum - Navigating the waters of Opeongo Lake in Algonquin Park - 10 year old at the helm and my dog Biscuit keeping a watchful eye on the other canoes in our party.
Chadd Webster
Jules Quachegan - Chisasibi, Northern Quebec, Canada. End of the day paddle.
Martin Pine - A rock garden on the Big East River
Kelly Grant Bosco - One foot in the canoe, one foot on a beaver dam. Algonquin Park Sept 2018 Amable du Fond River
Jean Lefebvre - Whitewater Lake Sunset, Wabikimi Prov. Park
Dave Johnstone - Black River, ON
CanYak Family Adventures Blog - Lake Superior, Pukaskwa NP.
Joan Berger - Sec Lake AP
Ann Kennerly - Beautiful morning paddle on the historic Mattawa River with my son-August 2018 (in our red Swift Mattawa canoe) 😊
Bob Root
Brent Boyle - End of the portage from Quetico Lake to Kasakokwog Lake
David Robillard - Canoe camp in the Adirondacks, father and son.
Debbie Macdonald - Frozen Ocean Kejimkujik National Park. 3 canoes heading to where we will be going
Cameron Nawalaniec - East Sand River in Ontario
Marylynn Wendell
Keely Croft - Kejimkujik National Park and Historic Site
Craig Rutledge
Dan Markovich - End of Kingston to Ottawa Rideau trip - approaching Parliament Hill
Ken N Carol Lunney - "Now where have you taken me??" - Haliburton Water Trails
Dave WE - Copper Lake KHPP
Debbie Crews
Doug Morrison - Beachcombing for firewood on Centre Lake.
Preston Hunter - O.S.A Lake Killarney Provincial Park
Sylvie Godel - Photo of me canoeing across Great Central Lake on Vancouver Island on the way to the trail head for Della Falls
Sofiah Budiastuti - Speed River Guelph
Ginette Perron - Georgian Bay
Abby Cuthbert - Mahzenazing River, Ontario
Matt Smith
Colleen Worobess - Backcountry camping this past August 2018 at Big Bob Lake in Algonquin Park
Rich McKinley
Kimberly Robinson - Woodland Beach
Holly Chappell - Georgian Bay, On
Mary Price
Rob Rogers - Pog Lake, Algonquin Park
Barry Elford - Moon River Solo over nighter
