Canoe Museum prepares to move world’s largest canoe and kayak collection
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'It's more than 600 vessels. Measured nose to tail, it’s a 3 km long portage and we are preparing these now to be moved to their new home,' says curator Jeremy Ward.
Construction has officially started at the future site of the Canadian Canoe Museum on Ashburnham Drive in Peterborough, but museum curator, Jeremy Ward, said work is well underway behind the scenes to get the collection ready for the big move.
“This is the largest canoe and kayak collection in the world, over 600 vessels,” Ward said.
“Measured nose to tail, it’s a three-kilometre-long portage or sequence and we are preparing these now to be moved to their new home.”
Dane Allendorf is part of the team cleaning and preparing the watercraft for the move. He said it is all a careful and tedious process.
“We’re removing any dust or dirt that shouldn’t be on the canoe. We are doing it carefully with dry rags,” he said. “We want to handle the objects as little as possible so we will work on this side, flip it, and finish the inside and from there it also gets photographed.”
Each piece is then catalogued and outfitted with a custom cradle to ensure it is safe while on its voyage through Peterborough.
Currently, the museum is only able to house and properly display less than 20 per cent of the collection, which is part of the reason for the new state-of-the-art facility.
Executive director, Carolyn Hyslop, said plans for a new museum have been in the works for a decade and she is excited construction is now underway.
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