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Canada Surfski
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
- Alberta Sprint Racing Canoe Association it's not unusual to find sprint kayaks and surfskis in the same herd
- Surfski Alberta (facebook)
Stores/Dealers
- Ocean Sports Edmonton, not surfski, but plenty of water gear, accessories
Resources
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British Columbia
See British Columbia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Resources
- FreshAir Adventure Alma, NB Bay of Fundy tours including surfski
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
- Adaptive Paddling Solutions Making Paddling Accessible
- Whitewater Nova Scotia Blog includes some tidal bores/races
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Ontario
See Ontario
Québec
- Clubs/Groups
- Downwind Quebéc SUP oriented but they downwind!
- Downwind Quebéc facebook
- Québec Surfski et Pirogue facebook
- Surf Lifesaving
- Dealers/Stores
- Pagaie Canada (surfskis - non, paddling accessories - oui)
- Kayak Ideal Think, Epic, Allwave (OCs) - Saint-Marc-des-Carrières, Quebéc, Canada
- Simon River Sports Sprint kayak, Canoe, and Dragon boat
- Races
- Repair
- L'Atelier Ren facebook Lac-Beauport à Québec
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Saskatchewan
- Waskana Canoe Club
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Clubs
- Canadian Canoe/Kayak Club Finder enter your city or town in the address search box
Conditions
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Safety
- Please read any safety information that we have on the pages for specific Canadian locales
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- Deep Cove (Vancouver) Immersion Protection Requirement the waters you are likely to paddle in elsewhere in Canada are often going to be as cold or colder than the water around Vancouver
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Videos
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Races
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Surfski Dealers/Supplies
Check province listings also for dealers and stores
- Coast Outdoors (Vancouver, BC based)
- Nelo Canada (Oakville, Ontario)
- Outrigger Performance Advantage Nalu OC
- The Paddle Hut (sprint kayak focus)
- Think Surfskis (Vancouver, BC based manufacturer)
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