A Cross Canada Canoe Odyssey Movie (2011)
In “A Cross Canada Canoe Odyssey” join four women, two men, and three canoes as they canoe from the Pacific Ocean, across Canada, to the Atlantic Ocean. The film follows crew members through laughter, illness, frustration, and perseverance as they paddle and portage 7,600 kilometers beneath mountain peaks, across the Great Plains, and through vast expanses of boreal forest.
Website: cancanoeodyssey.yikesite.com/
The trip begins in Vancouver at the mouth of the Fraser River. Through British Columbia’s mountain ranges the crew paddled along mountain lakes and cycled, hiked, and snowshoed through mountain passes with canoes overhead or in tow. The expedition crossed the Rocky Mountain continental divide via the historic Howse Pass. Once over the divide the crew descended into the North Saskatchewan River and across the Great Plains. Throughout the summer months, the Odyssey proceeded east amid record flooding in Manitoba, through small Canadian Shield sheltered lakes separated by countless portages, and past the cliffs and islands the Great Lakes. With the onset of fall, the crew rode the tides of the St. Lawrence, portaged into the St. John River basin, and coasted to the Bay of Fundy.
They overcome grueling portages, clouds of mosquitoes, food shortages, persistent wind and waves, freighter traffic, poison ivy, and having six independent people being interdependent, continuously for six months. They are quick to delight in the beauty of the scenery surrounding them and the simplicity of travelling with everything needed in their boats for survival and creating a home at every campsite.
The Cross Canada Canoe Odyssey was born out of a love of fresh water and fuelled by a lust for adventure. As the Royal Canadian Geographic Society’s 2011 Expedition of the Year, the Odyssey strove to advocate for the importance of freshwater to Canada and partnered with organizations that are working hard to benefit Canadian waterways: the Nature Conservancy of Canada and Canadian Heritage Rivers System.
Experience a fresh view of Canada from the water, an absolutely important aspect of the Canadian environment, heritage and cultural identity.
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Bravo! Great sportsmanship and comaraderie!
You guys deserve a million views
You guys (Cross Canada Canoe Odyssey, Mountains2Montreal and TranscanEAUda) were such a source of inspiration in 2011. All summer long, you made me dream. Thanks for this video, it was amazing to watch your journey across Canada. So many memories in my head right now. Love
Outstanding
Living your dreams! What an epic journey, something to share with your children and grand children...Thanks for sharing it with the world...
Thanks sooooo much for this. Takes me back... You guys are awesome.
So great to see this and follow along your trip once again. Portaging on snowshoes! I had forgotten just how epic this trip was.
Sounds like a great expeditions. Thank you all for dedicating it to the Canadian Nature Conservancy. Thanks for videoing it and posting too. From a paddler in Georgia usa.
You guys are my hero! Bravo and well done!
absolute gorgeous, thanks for sharing...love it ♥
아가씨들이 힘도 좋아! Powerful womans.
Excellent video and a trip I hope to add to my list some day!
Canoe Addicts for Life! Great video!
That was Super Badass! Very inspirational!
outstanding! well done and thanks for sharing, amazing.
Absolutely love the 15:42 drive-thru attempt. :) What an awesome expedition for an even more wonderful cause.
Great video guys it’s a good example of being through Canadien nice thanks
Wow! My longest journey was 23 days on a canoe trip in northern Ontario. I enjoyed the video.
Fantastic!! You guys are awesome!!!
Great video. Brings back great memories from my 2004 solo Cross Canada Canoe trip. Also brings back memories of when CBC radio did the interview with one of you, Mike Ranta and myself a few years ago.
@travismiller77
7 жыл бұрын
You did this trip solo?
@joeoblenis6193
7 жыл бұрын
Mine was a 6000 plus km solo trip, yes. It was fun :)
Incredible canoe trip that this expedition on the canadian rivers. It takes courage and determination to realize this adventure in the great wild spaces of Canada. It reminded me of another canoe expedition of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS). Sur les chemins de l’or bleu " On the blue gold paths " where a team of four canoeists who crossed part of Canada in 2015. Montreal to Inuvik, St-Lawrence river to canadian arctic by Mackenzie river, close to Beaufort sea. Congratulations and respects for completing this challenge. 🛶
great job guys and girls
Great video! What an experience you folks had. I wish I could have been there. Greetings from Satellite Beach, Florida.
(Mike) Simply very beautiful video, enjoy almost as if you had gone with them ... very natural ... I have not finished watching ... I will do it slowly ... my dog Kiche also likes me ...
Awesome video!
Very impressive to say the least.
Great film, thanks for sharing. Really felt for the guy with the bad legs when the belugas arrived.
Wow! U guys r lucky. I always wish to go like that Its like my dream. I enjoyed watching. Thanks u so much for this video
Great trip, would love more route details and ideas on trip cost
Wow. Congratulations
Good show guys 👍🇨🇦
Epic 👌🇨🇦 Incroyable 😉
I think i got poison ivy just from watching your video, holly weh.
So you guys had support member bring the bikes and supplies at different locations
salute.
Watched your video several times, is there more video?
Amazing trip, would love to know if the group has ever reunited ?
Nice video, but what happened to Ontario? I'm guessing you didn't take the Trent-Severn and stuck to the great lakes? Because that would be pretty boring. The Trent-Severn would have been the best part of your journey.
Awesome! Congrats! Were your Clipper canoes WW II Jensens?
epic paddle greetings from Scotland
Great trip. Is there going to be a book? How did they paddle UP the Fraser River? Hells gate etc? Love to know the details.
Hey Newfoundland is part of Canada too. So much for the cross country trip. Great video though.
@irnfldr
5 жыл бұрын
So true...who the hell was reading the map and said Canada ends in NS or NB? This is click bait for those who love the outdoors.
How'd you get from Lake Winnipeg to Lake Superior?! Lake of the Woods would've been cool to see
Anyone no the song from the start, really need to know...
I suspect mosquito may feature in this film
Nice journey. If you you travel thru bear country, have you got gun for safety reasons ?
who did that song Yukon girl, I want the album.
@nathaliebrunet282
5 жыл бұрын
There are two songs in the video: Others by Indigo Joseph and 555 by the Andino Suns, two great bands! Totally seek them out and their albums!
If any of you are ever in Burnaby and would like to give presentation to the Beaver Canoe Club - send me anote.
Typical Hortons crap and yes it is stupid. The coffee is much better at McDonalds McCafe!
Could you folks hook it up for me to be the only man, with 5 women as the others, to do this trip? Please? I'd love that. Talk about "living a dream in Canada". LOL.
4 wamen and to men it had to happen
Now try what Adam Shoalts did! kzread.info/dash/bejne/eGh30buCpNHFZJM.html
That annoying question inflection and vocal fry!
This video gives no sense of the canoeing or the camping or the day to day... it's just a collection of interviews and narration.