Preserving & Promoting the Heritage of Longlac District, Ontario

The 16th Annual Race of the little canoes will be run in the summer of 2003.  Every year the members diligently re-paint, re-number, and re-float up to 800 canoes.  For each numbered canoe there is a corresponding $10 ticket sold.

The race is usually on a Sunday afternoon in July at Riverview Park on the Kenogami River in the community of Longlac.  As the little 22-inch, solid wood canoes float along, several factors come into play - current, rain, wind, and just general contrariness.  Some canoes escape to the reeds and have to be coaxed back into the fleet.   Each canoe seems to have a personality.

The Society depends on this fund-raiser to maintain and operate the Longlac History Centre and its other projects.

Contact an LHS member for a ticket.