| May 1996 |
600 canoes in the Museum's collection are moved from Kanawa to their new home in Peterborough. |
| September 1996 |
Outboard Marine Corporation of Canada donates its former 140,000 sq. ft. manufacturing plant, office building, and eight acres of land to The Canadian Canoe Museum -- a gift valued at $2.2 million. |
| February 1997 |
More than 200 volunteers begin renovating the factory and office building, and develop the Museum's first exhibits.
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| July 1997 |
The Canadian Canoe Museum opens quietly on Canada Day, with 10,000 sq. ft. of exhibits. |
| January 1998 |
Support from HBC enables the Museum to acquire and exhibit an original fur trade post from Michipicoten, near Wawa, Ontario. |
| October 1998 |
The Honourable Hilary Weston, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, visits to launch the Museumís Education Program and dedicate the Garfield Weston Heritage Centre (see photo). |
| April 1999 |
The Museum receives a $1.057 million challenge grant from the Canada Millennium Partnership Program to be used for exhibit development, education and national outreach programs. |
| July 1999 |
The provincial government's Ontario 2000 program supports the Museum's Canoe Rendezvous 2000 tour of musicians and puppeteers, in collaboration with Ontario Parks. |
| September 1999 |
The Museum welcomes HRH The Duke of York for a tour of the Museum and a reception with volunteers and donors (see photo). |
| January 2000 |
A $167,000 grant from the federal Museums Assistance Program puts the Museum on the leading edge of digital information gathering, storage and retrieval. Using multimedia, the Museum collection and associated archival and research data will be accessible at the Museum, at outreach exhibits and around the world via the Internet. For the first time in a Canadian museum, a digital camera, lasers and robotics will be used to take the lines off canoes for reference by boat builders, museum conservators and researchers. |
| April 2000 |
The Rt. Hon. Jean Chrétien visits for a briefing on the Millennium Project (see photo). |
| September 2000 |
The Max Bell Foundation of Calgary makes a three-year pledge to support the National Education Program. |
| December 2000 |
The Museum receives a major gift from the George Cedric Metcalf Foundation of Toronto. |
| January 2001 |
The Power Corporation of Montréal contributes a lead donation to the Museumís travelling exhibits. |
| March 2001 |
The Hon. Herb Gray, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, officially unveils nine new exhibits during the Museumís grand opening event, the culmination of the $3.2 million Millennium Project. |
| June 2001 |
The Museum launches its "Canoe School" Education Program and Summer Institute for teachers. |
| June 2001 |
The Museum's travelling exhibit, "The Canoe: A Canadian Cultural Icon," opens at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife, NWT. |
| October 2001 |
The Museum opens "Reflections," an exhibit celebrating the role of the canoe in the lives of 12 notable Canadians. Objects in the exhibit include a birch bark canoe and buckskin jacket belonging to former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, on display for the first time (see photo). |
| January 2002 |
The Ministry of Natural Resources announces its contribution of $600,000 to build a $1.2 million Outdoor Learning Centre in partnership with The Canadian Canoe Museum. |
| October 2003 |
A lack of operating operating funds forces the Museum to close its doors temporarily and to undergo reorganization and financial restructuring. |
| May 2004 |
The Museum reopens from May to October. |
