Originally
an American club operating out of Buffalo itself, the
Buffalo
Canoe Club
relocated to Ontario’s Abino Bay in 1900
as a private members’ sailing club. The club was
founded in 1882 by Williams Lansing with the assistance
of Forbush, Danforth and Kelley and incorporated in
the State of New York in 1892. Their first boathouse
was at the foot of Austin Street on the Niagara River
in Buffalo before the relocation to Ontario. They joined
the CCA sometime just before 1909 after taking efforts
to improve their boat storage and hosted a regatta at
Abino Bay in 1910.
