It’s a portage unlike any other.
Hundreds of canoes belonging to the Canadian Canoe Museum — some as long as a transport trailer — are being moved from their previous location in a former outboard motor factory in Peterborough, Ont., to a new waterfront home three kilometres away.
The museum holds the world’s largest collection of paddled watercraft, from birchbark canoes handmade by Indigenous craftspeople to a sleek kayak used in the Olympic Games.
The museum’s building for the past 26 years is so cramped that only a portion of the collection could be displayed to the public. That left some 500 canoes
