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.
