Bear Mountain Boat: Blog

Ask a parent for advice on paddling with kids and you're bound to hear conflicting opinions. Some are gung ho about taking their babies out in t...

We’re spoiled living in Peterborough. There’s so much boatbuilding history in the region, we don’t have to go far to see really beautiful watercr...

Much as we love building and selling canoes, sometimes it can be a slog. Spending all day packaging orders, or feeling your hand go numb after h...

As canoe builders, we’re mindful that what we do is part of a tradition. We owe a debt to the builders of the past for many of the designs we us...

Since last fall, we've made an effort to be more active on social media. It's been fun to share pictures, stories, events with the building comm...

Our customer Dean Smoll sent us a very kind note the other day. He'd meant to post it to Instagram, but ran up against the word count limit and ...

  These days, if they’ve heard the name at all, most people associate Guy Lombardo with music. Not without reason – Guy Lombardo and his Royal Ca...

Last month, Lynnae Loeks sent us an account of how she and her husband Doug built not one but three canoe simultaneously. The feat was all the m...

 C4 for Lachine Canoe Club One of the perks of doing a Year in Review is it reminds you your life is more eventful than you give it credit for....

  One of the more exciting projects we’ve been involved in had to do with the North Canoe you see in the photo above. While we were initially rel...

The unfortunate owner of the canoe above took his hull still on the strongback out of the garage temporarily to sand it. That's usually a good p...

Now that Justin Trudeau is in office, we thought it would be a good time to share an anecdote about our brush with his dad, Pierre Trudeau. The ...