The Trent- Severn Waterway Brigade 2023 – July 27 to August 7 th , 2023

The pre-registration is to identify the canoe crews interested in paddling the brigade this summer as a team crew with access to their own boat. While the Brigade has been constructed around celebration of the Trent- Severn Waterway and the opening of the new Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, we have recently been informed that the museum will not be open by the time of our arrival. The Canadian Canoe Museum has, however, guaranteed a warm welcome to Peterborough with exclusive programming for the Brigade. Pre-registration and the follow up final registration are being handled through the Canadian Voyageur Brigade Society. The links will be provided by Zone 4 which is managing the electronic registrations for CVBS. Pre-registration cost per canoe Crew will be $500. This amount will be deducted from the final payments due at final registration.

Due to the logistics of moving a large group of paddlers through the Trent -Severn Waterway in mid summer, the Brigade registration will be limited to 15 Voyageur Canoe Crews. As we expect this Brigade to be popular, the Trent- Severn Brigade organizing committee is endeavoring to ensure a brigade with broad representation of Canadians from coast to coast to coast, both by age and region.  Secondary considerations will be to ensure representation from youth and enable representation from across Canada.  We will  maintain a list of those interested in joining a team and make that available to all captains/organizers. People wanting to apply to teams as “unattached” paddlers should recognize that they must take out a CVBS membership and may be required by teams to also have a club membership or other qualification.