Canadian Canoe Museum Commences Construction At New Location
Image is of the speakers and in order from left to right they are:
Chief Laurie Carr, Janet McCue, Chief Emily Whetung, Marcel Labelle, Min. Lisa MacLeod, MPP Dave Smith, Carolyn Hyslop, ED, CCM, Victoria Grant, Chair, CCM BOD, Jeremy Ward, Curator, CCM, Warden J. Murray Jones, Councilor Andy Dufrane
Credit: Photo by FusionRiver Photography, courtesy of The Canadian Canoe Museum.
The Canadian Canoe Museum held an event this weekend to commemorate the beginning of construction at the new location at 2077 Ashburnham Drive in Peterborough, Ontario. The new museum will enable CCM to house 100 per cent of its collection in a building that meets Class A conservation standards, directly on the water, which allows for increased on-water and in-person programming while being a key cultural tourism driver in what will become a vibrant community hub on the Peterborough waterfront.
“We are excited to celebrate the beginning of construction of our new world-class canoe museum in the company of our project partners, donors and funders and with our community as a whole. These watercraft, conceived and built over millennia by the Indigenous Peoples of what is now Canada, were central to building relations between the First Peoples and those who arrived four hundred years ago from Europe, beginning our shared history. These beautiful and functional craft offer us a vehicle through which we can better understand and appreciate that history. That understanding is essential in producing the Truth upon which Reconciliation between the First Peoples and those who came later must be founded.”
The event was live-streamed and if you missed it, you can watch it here…
