Come Join The Party!

The canoe museum is also celebrating its 10th year since incorporating as a non-profit in 2008. Both anniversaries will be celebrated during Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Day. The public is invited to this free event that will feature an annual canoe and wooden boat show on the street in front of the museum, plus tours and open house in the museum exhibit hall, ongoing activities in the canoe workshop, and live music, food and beverage available in the beer garden.

The main attraction of the day will be the Canoe & Wooden Boat Show. A wide array of antique canoes, boats, and canoe related materials will be on display, with collectors, builders, and canoeing enthusiasts in general bringing their gems to display, trade, sell, or just simply talk about. John Fuller is coming from Duluth with a 15’ 1942 Old Town wood canvas square stern canoe. Fred Weber is coming from Sheboygan to demonstrate his Myka Canoe Loaders, an adaptive aid to loading and unloading a canoe to and from a vehicle. Steve Hegna is returning from Black River Falls with his newly restored 18’ 1915 Old Town Ideal and an original 15’ 1933 Old Town Fifty-Pounder. One of the last boats made by the Hayward Boat Company, a 14’ oak slat rowboat, is coming with John Hackemer from Naperville, Illinois. George Nelson of Minoqua is bringing a 1938 wood canvas Prospector Vee-Stern canoe with a 1933 Johnson A-65 4.1 hp motor. Some 25 to 30 exhibitors are expected in all.