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On-line resources and sites: a select list of links that have contributed to our enjoyment of canoeing and trip planning. Please help maintain this list by adding your own link, or reporting a broken link above. Each of the link categories are organized by tabs to the right.

Other Canoeing Videos and Slide Shows:

Website for Robert Perkins: author, filmmaker, and artist. Website features books, poetry, films, and reflections from over 14 years of canoeing in the North and producing films for PBS and Channel 4 in England.  His books, films, and graphic designs can be purchased through website. 

Across Canada in a Canoe: In 2005, Peter and Andrew Marshall from St. Cloud, MN, paddle 2700 miles in a 20 foot canoe from Lake of the Woods in northern Minnesota to the Coppermine River and the Arctic coast in the Northwest Territories. Part one of a five part film on YouTube, 47 min 57 sec runtime (total). Published trip report on Canoe & Kayak website.

Rupert River Photo Series: Ian Diamond is a Cree photographer and media professional from Waskaganish in James Bay who has devoted himself to photographing the Rupert River before its scheduled diversion by Hydro Quebec. Construction is set to begin in the winter of 2007, and has a proposed completion date of 2009. This collection currently contains over 700 photos, and can be viewed as a slideshow on Flickr. Included on the site is a poem, and a personal statement from the photographer.

Riviere Dumoine - A Paddler's Journey: feature length film of a journey down the Dumoine River in Quebec. Winner of 2007 "Music Award" at WaterWalker Film Festival.

Justin's Journal - Crackle TV Productions: website and blog for explorer and adventure filmmaker Justin Curgenven. Her documentaries have aired on the BBC and National Geographic Channel, and she is director and filmmaker of the sea kayaking series, "This is the Sea" (1, 2, and 3).

TERRA 317: Up A Creek: Just in time for the spring runoff, Bill Cummings, renegade canoeist from Montpelier, Vermont, arrives to teach us something about the lost art of canoe-poling. Cummings stands in his canoe. He uses only an inch-thick pole to brave the whitewater. And he goes upstream. Produced for Terra, a video podcasting site.

The Spirit of the Thelon: A film by Heiko Peterman. Based on a Northern Dene and Inuit canoeing expedition from Lutsel K'e to Baker Lake in 1999.  YouTube trailer, 3 min 02 sec runtime.

Wilderness Bound: makers of documentary videos about Canadian wilderness rivers.  The website of George Drought and Barbara Burton.  Includes information on Back, Hood, Mountain, Thelon, and numerous other rivers. 

Cory Trepanier's Into the Arctic Project: based on 3 years travel in the North.  Cory is a landscape painter from Caledon, Ontario.  Follow his journey through stories, video journals, photos and more.  Additional paintings can be viewed at Trepanier Originals, and his video journals are available at mefedia.com. Includes travels to Auyuittuk National Park, the Firth River, the Dempster Highway, and more.

Beaver Feaver: Trailer for a DVD by David Terranova about a canoe trip to Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario.  Still in production, 47 sec runtime.

The Boundary Waters - Four Men and a Dog: trailer for a full length documentary filmed in the BWCA. "We paddled, portaged, camped, fished and explored for five days, filmed it and presented it on the big screen at the Lake Theater in northern Minnesota." Now the hour-long adventure documentary is available on DVD. YouTube video, 1 min 46 sec.

Canadian Style Paddling: a short "how to" video that will help understand the principles of how to paddle a canoe in the traditional Canadian style of paddling. By Rolf and Debra Kraiker. YouTube video, 7 min 54 sec.