Just to get things started.

This is "Grace". Grace is an old Chestnut "Pal" model, 16' canoe.

Grace sitting on the front canoe docks, twilight and half moon. Can it get any better than this?

Here she is paddled by Chris Milne just after being presented to the campers.


Grace had a lot of work done by me, Doug Ingram. The old varnish was stripped, 3 new ribs were installed, a lot of planking replace, the hull sanded, revarnished, new canvas and filler, trim sanded to bare wood and new varnish, broken gunnel repaired, stem and gunnel ends repaired, seats were re-caned, new paint, and finally, Manitoba Pioneer Camp and the name Grace were painted on the hull.

Moirah Harvey helped out by painting the name on the canoe. This work also me the opportunity to share with her the story of how I met her dad at camp. She had never heard the story. What made this even more interesting, is that she was cabin mates with my daughter this session!