Quebec City (AFP) – Defying a polar freeze, 50 long canoes are lined up at the foot of Old Quebec City, their boaters preparing to brave dangerous ice slabs and swirling currents to cross the St ...

This isn’t an expedition or rescue mission. These athletes are taking part in the extreme sport of ice canoe racing. The 3.2-kilometre race is part of the Quebec Winter Carnival which is one of ...

When early French settlers learned to use canoes from Indigenous people, ice canoeing became an important survival skill. Quebec-Lévis was a busy route before there were ferries and bridges to ...

The first ice canoe race took place in 1894 at the Quebec Winter Carnival and now more than 500 athletes compete in this race each year (coming up on Feb. 9) and take part in the province’s ...

These works go back to his childhood, such as La course à canot à glace devant Québec (Quebec City Ice Canoe Race, 1915, unknown collection), while others are assembled in his 1931 sketchbooks at the ...

Leave it to Minnesotans to turn canoe racing into the equivalent of a full-contact sport. Such description wasn’t a stretch in the mid-20th century, when there were paddling celebrities hellbent ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Na Wahine O Ke Kai canoe race is set to make its return this Sunday after a four-year break, attracting hundreds of female paddlers to the island. Get Hawaii’s latest ...