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Canadian Ocean Racing Champs, Howe Sound BC. Photo: Bob Putnam


The Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Ontario have the most online information currently available (2024) regarding their local downwinding and surfskiers. Canada has a lot of marine shoreline and large inland bodies of water (much with unsurpassed beautiful surroundings), but paddling in and paddling information from many locations can be sparse, often due to their remoteness and low population. Most of the paddling in Canada is usually going to involve cold water, but the thriving paddling communities that already exist demonstrate one can overcome that barrier (at least when surface ice has cleared).


Alberta

Clubs/Groups

Stores/Dealers

  • Ocean Sports Edmonton, not surfski, but plenty of water gear, accessories

Resources


British Columbia


Manitoba


New Brunswick

Resources


Northwest Territories

Playing on the Slave River


Nova Scotia

Locales

Bay of Fundy

Do your own diligence on what conditions are safe/paddling friendly if at all for your skill level! Tidal changes here are very strong with vastly varying conditions for paddling the tide races. The strong currents and lack of large population centres means there is limited access to hospitals or Coast Guard on-water resources. About Safety

Tidal Races

  • Gull Rock Ledges - Brier Island southern tip, there are shallow rock shelves that the changing tide builds waves on.

Tidal Bores

  • Shubenacadie (“Shubie”) River - tidal bore waves and rapids. Starting in Maitland - a few km run past the bridge to Green Creek. The video below has more wave surfing characteristics of a tidal race or standing river waves than typical tidal bores that move fairly uniformly upriver. So maybe this demonstrates something more along the lines of rapids that form due to interaction between river current and tide rather than strickly just a tidal bore??

Resources


Ontario

See Ontario


Québec


Saskatchewan


Clubs

  • Canadian Canoe/Kayak Club Finder enter your city or town in the address search box

Conditions


Safety


Videos


Races


Surfski Dealers/Supplies

Check province listings also for dealers and stores