Canoe Courses

Paddle Manitoba, FortWhyte Alive have partnered to provide you with quality Paddle Canada canoe courses. These courses will introduce you, and your family or group, to the basics of canoeing. In addition to safety training and equipment education, you will be taught the stokes and maneuvers that will help you to further enhance your paddling experience and build confidence on the water.

Courses Being Offered

Canoe Basic Skills

The Canoeing Basic Skills course is designed to introduce the novice to paddling with a partner in calm lake waters. The skills and knowledge gained at this level form the foundation necessary for confident safe paddling activities. Rescue techniques at this level are demonstrated with the option for participant involvement.

Lake Canoe Skills Introductory Tandem

Lake Canoe Skills Introduction Tandem is the first course in the Lake canoe paddling series offered by Paddle Canada. This course builds on the fundamentals that were learned from Canoe Basic Skills. During this course paddlers will increase their safety and theory knowledge, hone their paddling skills to encounter paddling in calm to light wind conditions and larger water crossings.