CCA Champions 1950

photograph © courtesy SCAP de Trois-Rivières

2015 Revival

photograph © Liam Birch
Former Radisson Building

Le Club de Canotage de Radisson Canoe-Kayak Club, founded in 1934 as the Radisson Canoe Club, is named after the Coureur de Bois Pierre Esprint Radisson (1636-1710). The club first inquired into membership in 1937 and officially entered CCA in 1941 just as national competition was suspended for WWII although they held annual regattas at the club during the war years. Upon reorganising in 1946, this brand new club entry took the championship burgee in its first competitive year. Radisson serviced the Trois Rivières area until 1965 (brief hiatus 1957-59) when it sold its property to the Chateauguay Boating Club. Recently, former paddlers have rejuvenated the club as an occasional associate member of CanoeKayak Canada with competition beginning at the 2015 National Championships. A highlight of the season for Radisson paddlers was the 100-mile race from La Tuque to Trois-Rivières along the St-Maurice River. A 1950 article from the Ottawa Journal indicates that Radisson's colours were red, yellow and blue, but this has yet to be verified anywhere.