London Free Press - Will Ruch has been building canoes since the sixth grade. It was a class project and all the kids chipped in, but for Ruch it was the beginning of something much more. As Canadians gear up to mark National Canoe Day on June 26 — an annual celebration of the watercraft that has bound this country together since before Europeans even knew it existed — people like Ruch are also celebrated. “It’s not a dying art,” says James Raffan, the executive director of the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ont. “Those traditions are still very much alive.” And according to Raffan, the canoe is just as popular today as it was hundreds of years ago because the basic geography of Canada has stayed the same.

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• Official site: National Canoe Day.