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
Galt Canoe Club, ON (Ubique) ~1880-84
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
Ste-Rose Canoe Club, QC 1884
Lakefield Canoe Club, ON
1883
Vaudreuil, QC <1884
Deseronto Canoe Club, ON 1884
St. Lambert Boating Club, QC 1886
Brockville Canoe Club, ON
1884
James Bay Athletic Association, BC 1886
Whitby Canoe Club, ON <1884
Island Amateur Aquatic Association, ON 1887
Lake St-Louis Canoe Club, QC 4 1885
Royal Hamilton Yacht Club, ON 1888
Montreal Boating Club, QC 3 <1868
Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club, QC 1888
Britannia Boating Club, ON
1887
Queen City Yacht Club, ON 1889
Orillia Canoe Club, ON <1888
St. John's Boating Club, QC 1890
Bobcaygeon Canoeing & Boating Assn, ON <1888
Burrard Inlet Boating Club, BC 1890
Otonobee, ON <1889
National Yacht & Sailing Club, ON 1890
     
Primrose Canoe Club, ON  1890
  19/23  
Brantford Canoe Club, ON ~1890
     
Carleton Place Canoe Club, ON 1893
     
Kingston Yacht Club, ON   1896
     
Aylmer Boat Club, QC 1897
Other Possible ACA Members:
Founding
Bohemian Amateur Ath. Association, ON 1898
Valois Boating Club, QC 1882
Smiths Falls Canoe Club, ON 189?
Bowmansville Canoe Club, ON <1883
Cataraqui Canoe Club, ON 1 <1893
Lakefield College Club, ON ?
Gananoque Canoe Club, ON 2 <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 ?
     
Royal Toronto Sailing Club, ON <1900
     
Parkdale Canoe & Sailing Club, ON <1900
     
Taunnary ?
     
Cobourg, ON ?
     
Hudson Heights Boating Club, QC <1896
        Chatham Canoe Club <1900
        Vancouver CB <1900
        Speed C, Guelph, ON <1900
        Sunnyside B <1900
        Winnipeg B <1900
1 See Kingston Yacht Club
2 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.
3 The Montreal Boating Club existed before the Montreal AAA formed in 1881 but may have been absorbed/merged at some point.
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
(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 (Galt)

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

Galt Canoe Club (Ubique)
 
 
 
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

Harry F. MacKendrick

R.H. Muntz

R. D'Arcy Scott

Reg Bloomfield

Aubrey E. Ireland
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 R.C.
1889
Harry F. McKendrick, Galt C.C.
1890
R.H. Muntz, Argonaut R.C.
1891
R. D'Arcy Scott, Ottawa C.C.
1893
R. Owen King, Toronto C.C.
1895
R. D'Arcy Scott, Ottawa C.C.
1897
J. Smith, St. Lambert B.C.
1899
  R. R. Wood, Canada
1900
E. J. Minnette, Grand Trunk B.C.
1901
E. J. Minnette, Grand Trunk B.C.
1903
Reginald Bloomfield, Toronto C.C.
1904
R. J. Dickson, Toronto C.C.
1906
Bruce Sutherland, Toronto C.C.
1909
L. B. Shorey, Kingston Y.C.
1910
Howard Linklater, Gananoque M. & C.C.
1911
J. B. Allen, Gananoque M. & C.C.
1912
J. B. Allen, Toronto C.C.
1914
Aubrey E. Ireland, Island A.A.A.
1915
Aubrey E. Ireland, Island A.A.A.
1916
C. G. Pound, Kingston Y.C.
1919
Aubrey E. Ireland, Island A.A.A.
1920
Art F. Pullaw, Gananoque M. & C.C.
1921
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Peterborough area clubs pre-1900


Montreal area clubs pre-1900


Toronto area clubs


Kingston area clubs

Shield won by Ottawa Canoe Club