Or the crystal blue rushing waters of the French River flows, a popular canoe journey through the rugged Canadian Shield, a pine-scented, rapid-laden landscape virtually unchanged since it was navigated by early explorers from France nearly 300 years ago.

Following the publication of The Great Canoes in 1995, he carved two canoes; a 26-foot and 32-foot, which were used on a number of canoe journeys.

Award winners have organized and completed adventures such as bicycle trips, hikes along the West Coast Trail, treks to the Canadian Arctic and canoe journeys.

This 5000-mile trip remains the longest North American canoe journey ever made in one season.

Set beneath the Mowdish and Cariboo Ranges, Bowron Lake Provincial Park offers one of the world's finest canoe journeys.

In 1986, the names of Don Starkell and his son Dana were entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for having completed the longest canoe journey ever, a distance of 12,181 miles (19,603 kilometres).

On July 27, 2006, Chief Jerry Jack of the Mowachaht-Muchalaht First Nations died during an intertribal canoe journey in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, near Dungeness Spit.

After their canoe journey, Jan notices that the Silver Sword has gone missing and he believes it to be back at Kurt's house.

Based in Whitehorse, Scott McDougall offers everything from ice fishing in the winter to outfitting for a 500-mile canoe journey down to Dawson City.

This week's writing competition winner recounts a nerve-jangling canoe journey through a remote part of Canada.