c1983-2000


c1960s


c1950s

Frank Matthews
1971-1972
Tom Mitchell
1973
Al Groff
1975

Commodores:
1893-1899 – George F.R. Harris
1900-1902 – Harold Smith
1903-1905 – Frank Leggo
1906 – George F.R. Harris
1907 – Arthur Hill
1908 – Charles M. Scott
1909 – Walter E. Strong
1910 – R. O. Taylor
1911 – Stuart M. Campbell
1912 – Frank B. Groff
1913 – Robert K. Hemphill
1914 – Harold P. Story
1915 – Ernest T. Leech
1916 – Stuart M. Campbell
1917-1918 – Byron J. McLeod
1919 – James H. Billington
1920-1921 – John A. McVicar
1922-1923 – Fred B. Graham
1924-1925 – Wm. Morley Story
1926 – Fred G. Thompson
1927 – Robert J. Orr
1928 – Fred G. Warburton
1929 – Joe R.K. Millen
1930 – John Leith Baird
1931 – R. Frank Wilson
1932 – John Franklin
1933 – Edward V. Johnson
1934 – Stanley H. Muton
1935 – F. Percy Gill
1936 – John A. Taylor
1937 – O. Hugh M. Johnston
1938 – R. A. George Youngg
1939 – John Earl Abra
1940 – Harold Harriman
1941 – Arthur W. Johnson
1942 – John A. Seddon
1943-1945 – A. S. Henderson
1946 – Neil K. Brown
1947 – J. W. Abbott
1948 – G. Wilford Batty
1949 – A. Jack McCrea
1950-1951 – Arthur Meers
1952 – David A. Steven
1953 – Roy H. Broadfoot
1954 – Paul S. Quinton
1955-1956 – Alan B. Groff
1957 – D. Allan Adams
1958 – L. Crawford Dawson
1959 – Bert Bristow
1960 – Chapman Kerkham
1961 – J. Allan Cammell
1962 – S. Jerry McCreery
1963 – James W. Astwood
1964 – Ken D. MacRae
1965-1966 – Eamonn O’Dwyer
1967 – Ron Kelsch
1968 – Rex Blamey
1969 – Doug H. Wheeler
1970 – John Brown
1971 – Thomas I. Mitchell
1972 – Robert A. Papineau
1973 – Charlie M. Cairns
1974 – Gordon Kunzelman
1975 – Donald L. Oakley
1976 – Jim Wood
1977 – David Kerr
1978 – Darrell Whyte
1979 – H. St. John
1980 – Clarence Sveinson
1981 – Robert Mann
1982 – Shirley MacRae
1983 – Ken N. Toland
1984-1985 – Don R. Corner
1986 – Peter Ashton
1987 – Richard Borland
1988 -
1989 -
1990-1993 – Lesley Baizley


 

Winnipeg, MANITOBA  
Red River  
Ancestral lands of the Cree, Oji-Cree, Métis, Ochéthi Šakówin, Anishinabewaki


Google Maps Link - photograph © CCA Archives


Jersey paintings © Liam Birch
Jersey


photograph © Manitoba Archives
Original Clubhouse 1895


photograph © courtesy Winnipeg Canoe Club

1990s


photograph ©

1950s Postcard


1912 Fire


New Retirement Building


Brigden & Nickel


photograph © Robert J. Sweeney

Art Print by
Robert J. Sweeney

Founded:
1893
Founders:
 
Official Name: Winnipeg Canoe Club
Other Names: Manitoba Paddling Association,
Winnipeg Paddling Club
Fate:
Converted to a Golf Course, then Retirement Community
Sprint program relocated to Toba Canoe Club
Telephone:
204-233-1105
Website:
www.canoeclubgolfcourse.com
Club Colours:
   

ACHIEVEMENTS
1937
1912, 1938
4th Place: 1935, 1936, 1951
Western Division Champions: 1971
Prairie Division Champions: 1974, 1975, 1976
Greatest Points Total: 1999: 36 (17th)
INFORMATION
The Winnipeg Canoe Club was incorporated June 6, 1893 on the banks of the Red River in Norwood although it was first linked with the Rowing Club on the north bank of the Assiniboine where it joins the Red. This club then moved to the south side of the Red just above Norwood Bridge. A new clubhouse was built in 1910 along Jubilee Ave. (land purchased in 1908) but was sold to CN Railway in 1913. A new building was erected in 1914 not far away off Dunkirk Drive on the east side of the river. This club was totally destroyed by fire in 1954, losing about 150 craft, including five C15s. Winnipeg entered CCA in 1912 after racing in a circuit with clubs from Fort William, Minneapolis and Duluth. In 1930, Winnipeg was readmitted to the CCA after some nine years out of the association. Some time was spent as the Manitoba Paddling Association from 1949 until 1964, during which (around 1950) there were at least three clubs in the "association." Winnipeg was the first western club to both join CCA and win the championship. Over the years, the club's priorities changed. Canoeing activities were grouped under the name Winnipeg Paddling Club in 1985 (after paddlers "broke away from the financially troubled Tennis Club" in 1983) and then the sprint program relocated entirely in 2000 under a new name and location: Toba Canoe Club. The original building was purchased by a German company which converted the site into a golf course. The new name became “The Treffpunkt Winnipeg Canoe Club Golf Course” and the original structure was torn down in 2007 to make way for a new retirement complex entitled "The Canoe Club."
CCA COMMODORES
None




Club Alumni
Don Starkell
Author of
Paddle to the Amazon
& Paddle to the Arctic

NATIONAL TEAM COACHES
None
CANADA GAMES MEDALISTS
Jamie Copeland 1989 C1 6k , Sandra Coppinger 1977 K2 500 K4 500 , C. Defoe 1969 K2 500 , Beth Dibnah 1977 K1 500 K2 500 K4 500 , M. Nelson 1977 K4 500 , Morna Rockingham 1969 K1 500 K2 500 , Peggy Valousek 1977 K4 500
NATIONAL TEAM ALUMNI

Douglas Groff

OLYMPICS 1940 ‡
(Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame 1983)
Jack McDowell
OLYMPICS 1940 ‡
Frank Banwell
OLYMPICS 1940 ‡
William Brigden
OLYMPICS 1952
(Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame 1993)
James Nickel
OLYMPICS 1952
L. Smith  
NA Champs 1954 K1 1000 , 1955 K1 1000