The
Aylmer Boating Club was located
at the foot of Main Street (Rue Principale) on Mr. Conroy's
wharf (the site of today's Aylmer Marina) and was founded
approximately 1890 since they co-hosted regattas with
the Ottawa Canoe Club that year. By 1900, they had 40
members, a "sufficiently commodious" boathouse
and wrote in the Ottawa Journal about the possibility
of local interested parties discussing a coming together
of boating organisations. (Likely a reference to the
Victoria Yacht Club
further upstream north of Aylmer) A Wikipedia article
cites a missing source that has conflicting information,
namely that the Aylmer Boating Club became Aylmer Yacht
Club in 1900 (likely confusion resulting from postcards)
and then subsequently the Victoria Yacht Club in 1906.
However, the Ottawa Journal article from August 10,
1897 clearly calls the new club being founded as Victoria
Yacht Club and makes no mention of the Aylmer Boating
Club. Besides, the two clubs were located on distinctly
separated sites. The Aylmer Boating Club was a member
club of the American Canoe Association from 1894 through
1900 and was spearheaded by president George Burns.
The club was sometimes listed as Aylmer CC in ACA Yearbooks.
