AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION est. 1880
The American Canoe Association was formed in 1880. Many Canadian clubs belonged to the ACA as part of its Northern Division until 1900 when the CCA founding clubs formed their own Canadian Association. By 1889, there were up to 23 Canadian member clubs in the ACA.
NORTHERN DIVISION est. 1887
Confirmed 1889 Members:
Founding
Confirmed Members after 1889:
Founding
Peterborough Canoe Club, ON
1872
Royal Canadian Yacht Club, ON 1852
Grand Trunk Boating Club, QC 1875
Lachine Boating Club, QC 4 1863
Pointe Claire Boating Club, QC
1879
Longueuil Boating Club, QC 1867
Toronto Canoe Club, ON
1880
Ottawa Rowing Club, ON 1867
Ubique Canoe Club, Toronto, ON 1880
Argonaut Rowing Club, ON 1872
Buffalo Canoe Club, ON
1882
Leander Rowing Club, ON 1877
Ottawa Canoe Club, ON
1883
Don Rowing Club, ON 1878
Royal Military College Kingston, ON 1883
Ste. Anne's Boating Club, QC 1878
Lindsay Canoe Club, ON
1883
St. Lambert Boating Club, QC 1886
Lakefield Canoe Club, ON
1883
James Bay Athletic Association, BC 1886
Deseronto Canoe Club, ON 1884
Island Amateur Aquatic Association, ON 1887
Brockville Canoe Club, ON
1884
Royal Hamilton Yacht Club, ON 1888
Whitby Canoe Club, ON <1884
Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club, QC 1888
Lake St-Louis Canoe Club, QC 4 1885
Queen City Yacht Club, ON 1889
Montreal Boating Club, QC <1885
St. John's Boating Club, QC 1890
Britannia Boating Club, ON
1887
Burrard Inlet Boating Club, BC 1890
Orillia Canoe Club, ON <1888
National Yacht & Sailing Club, ON 1890
Bobcaygeon Canoeing & Boating Assn, ON <1888
Kingston Yacht Club, ON 2 1896
Otonobee, ON <1893
Aylmer Boat Club, QC 1897
     
Bohemian Amateur Ath. Association, ON 1898
  19/23  
Smiths Falls Canoe Club, ON 189?
     
Cataraqui Canoe Club, ON 1 <1893
   
Galt Canoe Club, ON <1893
     
Gananoque Canoe Club, ON 5 <1893
     
Qu'Appelle B.F. & S.C., SK (NWT) <1893
     
Chemong Canoe Club <1898
     
Trenton Canoe Club, ON ?
     
Dorval Juniors Boating Club, QC 1891
     
Corinthian, Toronto, ON <1893
     
Prescott, ON <1893
     
Beaconsfield Canoe Club, QC ?
     
Brantford Canoe Club, ON  
     
Royal Toronto Sailing Club, ON ?
     
Parkdale Canoe & Sailing Club, ON 1 ?
     
Taunnary ?
     
Cobourg, ON 1 ?
     
Hudson Boating Club, QC 1 ?
           
Other Possible ACA Members:
Founding
Other Possible ACA Members:
Founding
Valois Boating Club, QC 1882
Carleton Place Canoe Club, ON 1893
Ste-Rose Canoe Club, QC 1884
Winnipeg Canoe Club, MB 1893
Primrose Canoe Club, ON 1890
Lakefield College Club, ON ?
Bowmansville Canoe Club, ON <1883
Vaudreuil, QC <1884
1 Unlikely to be the same clubs as the later CCA members in the 1900s due to their official founding dates.
2 Cataraqui disappears from the ACA Club Members list in 1895. KYC appears in numbers in the 1896 list.They are likely the same organisation rebranded.
3
4 In 1885, members of the Lachine Boating Club formed the Lake St-Louis Canoe Club as a canoe-centred outfit and began hosting regattas that year.
5 Gananoque seems to have had a consistent membership with the ACA since at least 1893 and continuing into the 1900s when some members won the ACA Paddling Trophy. It is entirely likely that the club reorganised/rebranded as the Gananoque Motor Boat & Canoe Club in 1906.
(1967 saw a Lakefield Preparatory School affiliated with CCA as an associate club.)

Lindsay Club Penant

Deseronto Club Penant


Peterborough Club Penant

Bobcaygeon Club Penant

Galt Club Penant

RMC Kingston Ribbon

Qu'appelle Club Penant

Trenton Club Penant

Gananoque Club Penant

Ubique Club Penant

Lake St-Louis Club Penant *
* Colours Unknown but possibly red and white from parent club Lachine
Canadian ACA Commodores
Elihu Burritt Edwards
1883

Peterborough Canoe Club
 
 
 
Frederick Sherwood Rathbun
1886

Deseronto Canoe Club
 
 
 
Lieutenant-Colonel Harry C. Rogers
1889

Peterborough Canoe Club
 
 
 
Lieutenant-Colonel William H. Cotton
1893

Cataraqui Canoe Club
 
 
 
John M. McKendrick
1897

Galt Canoe Club
 
 
 
William G. McKendrick
1900

Ubique Canoe Club
 
 
 
Charles E. Britton
1900

Gananoque Canoe Club
 
 
 
John MacKay
1922

Kingston Yacht Club
 
 
 
Aubrey Ireland Sr.
1928
Island Amateur Aquatic Association
 
 
 
ACA Paddling Trophies
Event Trophy
Donated
Senior Singles, Half Mile
The Paddling Trophy
1888
American Canoe Association  
Introduced 1888, financed by subscription of the members for competition at the annual A.C.A. meet. For paddling, single or double blade, was allowed but virtually all competitors used the double blade.
Discontinued 1933
Canadian Winners:
Alexander Torrence, Brockville
1889
Harry F. McKendrick, Toronto
1890
R.H. Muntz, Toronto
1891
R. D'Arcy Scott, Ottawa
1893
R. Owen King, Toronto
1895
R. D'Arcy Scott, Ottawa
1897
J. Smith, St. Lambert
1899
    R. R. Wood, Canada
1900
  E. J. Minnette, Montreal
1901
  E. J. Minnette, Montreal
1903
  Reginald Bloomfield, Toronto
1904
  R. J. Dickson, Toronto
1906
  Bruce Sutherland, Toronto
1909
  L. B. Shorey, Kingston
1910
  Howard Linklater, Gananoque
1911
  J. B. Allen, Gananoque
1912
  J. B. Allen, Toronto
1914
  Aubrey E. Ireland, Toronto
1915
  Aubrey E. Ireland, Toronto
1916
  C. G. Pound, Kingston
1919
  Aubrey E. Ireland, Toronto
1920
  A. F. Pullaw, Gananoque
1921


Peterborough area clubs pre-1900


Montreal area clubs pre-1900


Toronto area clubs


Kingston area clubs

Shield won by Ottawa Canoe Club