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ATLANTIC PADDLING SYMPOSIUM, 2012 PHOTO: DON URQUHART
The
DIRECTOR’S STROKES
I RECENTLY RETURNED from the 2012 Atlantic Paddling Symposium in Nova Scotia. I can’t express how impressed I was with the quality of instruction and presentations. There were coaches and participants from all over Canada and two from the United States. Attending the symposium so- lidified in my mind the importance of bringing together passionate paddlers. We are looking forward to the
Alberta Paddling Symposium in late June, the sixth annual Atlantic Paddling Symposium next spring in New Brunswick and the Pacific Paddling Symposium at the end of June 2013 in Victoria, B.C. There are also preliminary discussions and organising for an Ontario symposium next season as well. In April, I attended the National
Recreational Boating Advisory Council meetings in Ottawa with Transport Canada. Paddle Canada is very excited to provide a voice for the Canadian paddling community in federal deci- sion-making circles. If you have ideas for future agenda items to be tabled on behalf of the paddling community, please contact me. The next meeting is November 2012. I am happy to announce we have
secured $50,000 of funding once again this year from Transport Canada’s Of- fice of Boating Safety. We are proud to be one of only six funding partners this year. The support will help with the expansion of all our paddling programs, symposiums, a national safe paddling media campaign and the planning of a National Paddling Week in June 2013 in partnership with Rapid Media and the Canadian Canoe Museum. Until next time, keep your stick in
the water.
GRAHAM KETCHESON Executive Director
info@paddlingcanada.com
MAIN CURRENTS and NEW DIRECTIONS
FROM the PRESIDENT
The Atlantic Paddling Symposium was very well attended. I would like to recognise Andrew Westwood’s epiphanic presentation on main cur- rents and new directions in the paddling world. There is nothing more relevant than change and we must embrace it to continue to be relevant. The best examples are the advent of boofing off of rocks in rivers and rock hopping in sea kayaks. The boats we paddled historically would not tolerate bouncing off rocks without catastrophic consequences. Paddle Canada is proud to have pioneers within its cadre, to grow our paddling paradigms to new levels of fun and adventure. Another realisation that I have discovered lately is our network of
global connections. The world population is literally bouncing from place to place with the click of an online reservation button these days. We readily invite and embrace knowledge and skilled talent from the Ameri- can Canoe Association and the British Canoe Union at our gatherings and recently at our symposiums. This can only expand our horizons and cross-pollinate our membership and instructorship to appreciate more diverse paddling and paddlers. Paddle Canada instructors are interact- ing and influencing paddling globally too. I’m not sure where it will all go, but when I see sea kayakers poling
at the past symposiums and some very traditional canoeists SUP-ing, change is certainly in the air. Get out and get wet,
BLAIR DOYLE President & Regional Director (Nova Scotia)
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