Jersey artwork © Liam Birch

The New Edinburgh Canoe Club was founded in 1904.

From Alan McCullogh www.sailonec.com: "An article in the Ottawa Citizen in 1923 suggested that some Ottawa Canoe Club members felt that 'there was too much ‘fuss’ and not enough athletics in the old club.' They hoped to expand the club’s activities into other sports – rugby, hockey, etc., and when their ideas received little support from the executive they formed the New Edinburgh Canoe Club and built a small floating boathouse a ways upstream from the OCC. NECC hosted their first invitational regatta in 1909 on Rideau Aquatic Club's course. The NECC had never had its own official clubhouse – in 1913 it was based in a boathouse '…immediately below the pavilion at Rockcliffe…' - and in June it applied to the OIC for permission to build a clubhouse on the river below the “old Bronson dock.” The Ottawa Improvement Commission replied that it would be willing to grant permission for one clubhouse but not for two and suggested that the OCC and NECC amalgamate."

The New Edinburgh building was “starting to leak” and so amalgamation was timely. Their members were called the “Burgs" and the club colours were carried forward with the merger.