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The Longest Race: 100 Days By Canoe Across Canada
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For over 100 days, across 5,000 kilometres of the Canadian landscape, ten teams of men canoed the nations rivers from Rocky Mountain House, Alberta to Montreal. All of this was done as a grand event during Canada's Centennial Year of 1967.
It remains the longest canoe race in history.
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*sources*
- Newspapers.com
- Paddling Magazine: https://paddlingmag.com/stories/columns/tumblehome/centennial-voyageur-canoe-pageant/
- CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/1967-canoe-northwestern-ontario-1.3780312
- Elk Point History: https://elkpointhistory.ca/centennial-voyageur-canoe-pageant-1967
- PANow: https://panow.com/2017/07/05/voyageur-canoe-pageant-2/
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