The
Peterborough
Canoe Club was founded before 1936,
and officially joined CCA under the green and red colours
the following year (although one athlete medaled in
the Junior C1 in 1936). The club lasted intermittently
until 2000 with a strong presence in the 1970s. Their
second official CCA entry was in 1996 although an article
in 1965 for the Toronto Sailing regatta claims they
are the newest club to join the division that year.
In the nineteenth century, canoeing prospered in the
region. An earlier incarnation known as the Peterborough
Boating Club (c1872 and listed
in ACA yearbooks in the 1890s as both Peterborough
Boating and Canoe Club and Peterborough
Canoe Club. This club moved from their original premises
on King Street when the CPR built new lines) raced in
American Canoe Association regattas on Stony Lake with
the likes of the Lindsay Canoe
Club and the Lakefield
Canoe Club. The Peterborough club hosted
their own regattas, the first being August 13/14, 1872.
A point of interest is the expectation in 1969 of a
formal application from the Stewart-Auburn
Griffin Canoe Club of Peterborough, Ontario.
Nothing else is known about this club or its affiliation,
if any, with the Peterborough Canoe Club.
