Yukon Education Canoe Program
Fall Season
- Canoe wrangling* is done by the school/teacher in the fall
- Bookings are sent to jesse.jewell@gov.yk.ca and organized in a calendar to ensure everyone gets the equipment they need. Canoeing is hugely popular as an educational outlet in Yukon. I try my hardest to ensure everyone gets the dates they would like and this is not always possible
- *Wrangling means to load the canoes from the canoe rack on to the trailer and then transport the trailer to the lake/river and then back to Yukon Education
Chadburn Lake waterfront. Friday, June 1st 2018 - Holy Family & Elijah Smith Elementary
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For over 30 years Yukon Education has been providing canoes for use in Yukon schools. There are two distinct canoe season:
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Why take your class canoeing?
- The canoe is a First Nations invention. Although modern materials, like plastics, are now the norm the shape and function of the canoe has remained relatively unchanged which speaks to the quality of its development thousands of years ago
- Consider using the canoe as a way to decolonize your classroom as you explore the Yukon landscape
- Embedding core competencies into a canoe experience is relatively seamless and uber relavent
- The canoe is an acceptable alternative for a chair given that our redesigned curriculum explicitly encourages connections to First Nations ways of knowing and doing, student-centered learning, and to place-based learning
Spring Season
- Canoe wrangling is organized by Jesse Jewell and contracted out to a service provider in the community
- Booking request forms are sent out in April and returned to jesse.jewell@gov.yk,ca These forms are used by the service provider and your canoes are delivered and pick-up from the lake/river
- I will send the canoe booking form out to all schools in early April and also post it on this site
Things to consider
- Please read the canoeing standards below
- These standards outline important information regarding canoe certification and operating procedures
Gear
- Yukon Education has a fleet of 50+ canoes
- 23 canoes were added to our fleet Winter 2018
- Old T. Discovery 16'/17', Mad River 16' and Nova Craft 16'/17'
- 6 canoe trailers (5 x 10 boats, 1 x 8 boats)
- 2 new added in Winter 2018
- Paddles
- 50 new paddles added in Winter 2018
- PFD's
- Throw-ropes and bailers
- Resources to replace/repair gear is limited so please treat the gear kindly :-)
- Please clean the inside of all canoes free of mud etc. prior to returning them
- Please report gear malfunctions etc. to jesse.jewell@gov.yk.ca
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JHE out on Chadburn Lake with the voyageur canoes. What an amazing learning environment. Fall 2017.