The Kingston Yacht Club was officialy formed in 1896 (known for a time as the Kingston Ice Boating Club) and became a founding member of the CCA in 1900. They purchased a C15 in 1899 but there was "not enough interest displayed to get sufficient crew to man the canoe for the CCA races at Brockville." (Evening Recorder August 1, 1900) Soon after, in 1903, the club left the association but still operates today. Paddlers left in 1934 to form the new Cataraqui Canoe Club.

* The American Canoe Association Club Member Lists show a "Cataraqui Canoe Club" from approximately 1886-1895. In 1896, KYC shows up with the former CCC members in their ranks. including J.M. Mowat. According to Margaret Wild in Vista, "when Kingston's sailors formed a yacht club, they invited CCC to join them in erecting a handsome new building. The canoeing fraternity thus became part of Kingston Yacht Club." The Cataraqui Canoe Club was formed in 1886 as an "association of gentlemen canoeists" and hosted the ACA camp in 1893 at Wolfe Island. Back in 1891, it was announced in the Toronto Mail (May 21) that "the Frontenac Boating Club of Kingston have decided to build an athletic club house." This may have been the origins of the Cataraqui Canoe Club.

In 1899, there was a race between Thomas McAnley's steam yacht and the Kingston Yacht Club C15 from the clubhouse to the penitentiary and back. The C15 covered the distance first in 25 minutes.

Another club, the Kingston Canoe Club, was started around 1909. According to Fred Johnston: "The success of the Kingston paddlers may account for the appearance of a new canoe club — the Kingston Canoe Club — sometime between 1909 and 1914. Little is known about this phase of canoeing in the community. World War One stifled the fledgling club and it failed to survive the war years, along with numerous other sporting organizations in communities across Canada."