Expéditions
2020 to 2023
Two Row on the Grand
For the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, we still carried the Friendship Wampum and the Two Row Wampum down the Grand River from Cambridge to Lake Erie. We had socially distanced paddles with only those paddlers who could be self-sufficient with transportation, food and safety supplies.
We compiled playlists of our paddle days, called Trip Clips and also teachings, TRED Talks: Getting Traction with Healing and Reconciliation. Click to see those YouTube playlists and others, below.
In 2022 and 2023, we resumed full ten day trips, sharing the river, meals, campgrounds and cultural teachings along the way.
2019 Two Row on the Grand
July 24, 2019
9 days paddling, portaging, sharing campgrounds, meals and cultural teachings with the Haudenosaunee on the Grand River from Cambridge, ON - Glen Morris - Five Oaks - Kanata Village - Knott's Landing, Six Nations Territory - Caledonia - Grand Oaks RV Resort, Cayuga - Byng Island Conservation Area - Lake Erie at Port Maitland, ON with cultural teachings each day. July 24-August 1.
2018 Two Row on the Grand
July 18, 2018
9 days Paddling with the Haudenosaunee On the Grand River from Cambridge, ON - Glen Morris - Five Oaks - Knott's Landing, Six Nations Territory - Caledonia - Grand Oaks RV Resort, Cayuga - Byng Island Conservation Area - Lake Erie at Port Maitland, ON with cultural teachings each day.
2017 Two Row on the Grand
July 20, 2017
7 days Paddling with the Haudenosaunee On the Grand River from Five Oaks, south of Paris, ON - Kanata Village, Brantford - Knott's Landing - Chiefswood Park, Six Nations Territory - Caledonia - Grand Oaks RV Resort, Cayuga - Byng Island Conservation Area - Port Maitland, on Lake Erie, with cultural teachings each day.
2016 Two Row on the Grand
July 07, 2016
7 days Paddling with the Haudenosaunee On the Grand River from Paris, ON - Cockshutt Bridge, Brantford - Newport Bridge - Chiefswood Park, Six Nations Territory - Caledonia - Grand Oaks RV Resort, Cayuga - Byng Island Conservation Area - Rock Point Provincial Park, Lake Erie - Port Maitland, ON with cultural teachings each day.
2013 Two Row Wamum Renewal Campaign Paddle
14 days/jours On the Hudson River ("the river that flows two ways"): Albany, NY - Troy - Rensselaer - Schodack Island - Catskill - Saugerties - Kingston - Norrie State Park - Poughkeepsie - Beacon - Cold Springs - Stony Point - Croton-on-Hudson - Piermont - Yonkers - Inwood Hill Park - Pier 96, Manhattan - United Nations
2011 Expédition des Oblats
18 jours/days: De Kitcisakik, QC, dans le Parc La Vérendrye, on a traversé trois réservoirs: Dozois, Cabunga, Baskatong et a sillonné les rivières Gens de Terre, Wapos et Gatineau jusqu'à Ottawa, ON
The 2011 David Thompson Brigade
43 jours/days: From Invermere, BC through Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon to the Pacific Ocean at Astoria, Oregon. I paddled 20 days from Wenatchee, WA, arriving in Astoria, OR, on July 15th, 2011, exactly 200 years after David Thompson, world's greatest mapmaker, arrived to find familiar faces from the North West Company now working for the American Fur Company.
2009 L'Expédition Sieur des Moines
35 jours/days: De Moosonee, ON, on a touché sur la Baie James, les rivières Moose, Abitibi, Anakawana, Abitibi, Lac Abitibi, Rivière Duparquet, Lac Duparquet, Riviere Kanasuta, les lacs Dasserat, Opastica, Raven, Rivière Larder, Lac Windigo, Rivière Blanche, White River, Lac Témiscamingue au Fort Témiscamingue, près de Ville Marie, QC.
The 2008 David Thompson Brigade
63 days: From Rocky Mountain House, AB to Fort William, Thunder Bay, ON - North Saskatchewan River, Lake Winnipegosis, Lake Manitoba, Assinniboine RIver, Red River, Lake Winnipeg, Winnipeg River, Lake of the Woods, Rainy River, Rainy Lake, Boundary Waters, Quetico Park, Lac des Mille Lacs, Savanne River, Dog River, Dog Lake, Kaministiquia River
2007 The Étienne Brûlé Expedition
July 01, 2007
61 days/jours: Ottawa - Kingston - Trenton - Kawartha Lakes - Lake Simcoe - Georgian Bay - French River - Lake Nipissing - La Vase - Trout Lake - Mattawa River - Ottawa River - Ottawa