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Canoe Cove Association

To promote the ownership and enjoyment of boats manufactured by canoe cove manufacturing.

We are proud owners of boats manufactured by Canoe Cove Manufacturing in Sidney, BC. Our association’s goal is to record as many surviving Canoe Cove boats as possible. The company built 782 boats from 1958 to about 1993 on a semi production line basis. They are still producing boats on a custom order basis and are involved in repairs and rebuilding of Canoe Cove boats as well as boats made by many other manufacturers. At present we have over 130 boats registered.

Our association is a loosely organized club with no dues, no meetings, a quarterly newsletter, and an Annual Rendezvous in August where around 25 boats are registered each year. For many years the event was at Telegraph Marina, Thetis Is. and was originally sponsored by the Factory. This ended in the early 1990s and there were no events for a number of years. Then, about 2004 the event was revived by the owners, led by the late John Burke, who believed it was worth doing and it has been growing ever since.

The Canoe Cove Association rendezvous have been held at most of the marinas in the Gulf Islands. The favourites seem to be Telegraph Marina, Ladysmith Marine Society Marina and Port Browning Marina.

We are always looking for new members, so if you own a Canoe Cove boat and are not a member, please get in touch with us.

The Association is run by a volunteer group — we don’t have any elections either — who look after organizing the Rendezvous, producing the CanoeCoveR, our newsletter, ordering regalia, keeping the roster and anything else that comes up during the year.