Temagami Canoe Festival ready for July launch with big prize package

Temagami Canoe Festival is July 15-17, 2016. Activities include canoe displays, demos and workshops, canoe race events, historical talks, birch bark canoes, guided old growth forest hikes, live music, food and craft vendors, and much more.

Photo credit Steve Bruno.

We all know that Temagami is one of the most beautiful areas of Ontario, and the area is pulling out all the stops for its annual festival.

The Temagami Canoe Festival is a 3-day, indoor-outdoor, multistage, ticket and family-friendly celebration of canoes, culture and music July 15-17.

Activities include canoe displays, demos and workshops, canoe race events, historical talks, birch bark canoes, guided old growth forest hikes, live music, food and craft vendors, and much more.

Visit www.temagamicanoefestival.com for more information.

This year British celebrity, Ray Mears, a world-renowned authority on wilderness bushcraft and survival will be featured.

Mears has become recognized globally through his various television series including Tracks, World of Survival, Trips, and The Real Heroes of Telemark. He has spent his life learning bushcraft skills. He founded Woodlore, the School of Wilderness Bushcraft in 1983 and has been teaching ever since.

Visit www.RayMears.com

There's also an online contest you can enter called "The Great Canadian Grey Owl Adventure".

It's a chance to win a five-day fully outfitted trip in Lady Evelyn Smoothwater Provincial Park with wilderness expert Ray Mears followed by three nights at Smoothwater Eco-Lodge and a tour of First Nation’s Bear Island community on Lake Temagami. The prize is valued at $5,000.

Here’s the link to enter the contest: https://www.ontariotravel.net/en/plan/contests/the-great-canadian-grey-owl-adventure