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Kirk Wipper At Muskoka Wharf October 2009
Many of you know of Kirk Wipper. Kirk was one of my professors at U of T and I was fortunate to work for him at Camp Kandalore when he owned the camp. Kirk founded the Kanawa Collection which has since become the Canadian Canoe Museum. So Kirk was very instrumental in the development of my love of canoeing and the outdoors, and especially for old wood canoes. Last October (2009) Kirk spoke at the Muskoka Wharf (at the Muskoka Boat & Heritage Centre – Grace & Speed Boathouse). Brian Hayden, a young film maker, was present during Kirk’s talk and filmed the presentation as part of his Docanoementary. Brian was kind enough to post two segments of this on YouTube. As Brian describes of the first clip, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRA3k5rXL84&feature=related:
Kirk Wipper founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum gives a presentation on the Canoe. Kirk has an amazing sense of humour and is a natural personality. This is a short unedited clip that is part to my Docanoementary. Mr. Wipper gave insight to the meaning and application of the Canoe thru his personal experience and life long passion for this vehicle that is so much part of Canadian culture and history.
A second piece continues with Kirk’s discussion, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQHfL4lbE1U, which Brian describes as:
A scene of Kirk Wipper founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum speaking about the Canoe and its significance in Canadian Culture. A second scene is Kirk Wipper talking about Pierre Trudeau and his paddling skills that the RCMP had difficulty with…lol. Kirk is really a very good story teller and the Trudeau story is great.
Brian’s short film vignettes captured the essence of Kirk Wipper….his passion for the canoe and for wilderness….and his humour. I loved his story about Pierre Trudeau….and also about his desire to go around and take the maple leaf off the Canadian flag and replace it with a canoe (probably a red canoe)….Kirk talks about the canoe being recognized by the CBC poll as one of Canada’s Seven Wonders. Although very short this is pure Kirk Wipper.
So I hope you enjoy these short films….thanks to Brian Hayden for making them possible….and especially thanks to Kirk Wipper. Check out the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRA3k5rXL84&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQHfL4lbE1U
Paddles up until later then.
Many of you know of Kirk Wipper. Kirk was one of my professors at U of T and I was fortunate to work for him at Camp Kandalore when he owned the camp. Kirk founded the Kanawa Collection which has since become the Canadian Canoe Museum. So Kirk was very instrumental in the development of my love of canoeing and the outdoors, and especially for old wood canoes. Last October (2009) Kirk spoke at the Muskoka Wharf (at the Muskoka Boat & Heritage Centre – Grace & Speed Boathouse). Brian Hayden, a young film maker, was present during Kirk’s talk and filmed the presentation as part of his Docanoementary. Brian was kind enough to post two segments of this on YouTube. As Brian describes of the first clip, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRA3k5rXL84&feature=related:
Kirk Wipper founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum gives a presentation on the Canoe. Kirk has an amazing sense of humour and is a natural personality. This is a short unedited clip that is part to my Docanoementary. Mr. Wipper gave insight to the meaning and application of the Canoe thru his personal experience and life long passion for this vehicle that is so much part of Canadian culture and history.
A second piece continues with Kirk’s discussion, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQHfL4lbE1U, which Brian describes as:
A scene of Kirk Wipper founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum speaking about the Canoe and its significance in Canadian Culture. A second scene is Kirk Wipper talking about Pierre Trudeau and his paddling skills that the RCMP had difficulty with…lol. Kirk is really a very good story teller and the Trudeau story is great.
Brian’s short film vignettes captured the essence of Kirk Wipper….his passion for the canoe and for wilderness….and his humour. I loved his story about Pierre Trudeau….and also about his desire to go around and take the maple leaf off the Canadian flag and replace it with a canoe (probably a red canoe)….Kirk talks about the canoe being recognized by the CBC poll as one of Canada’s Seven Wonders. Although very short this is pure Kirk Wipper.
So I hope you enjoy these short films….thanks to Brian Hayden for making them possible….and especially thanks to Kirk Wipper. Check out the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRA3k5rXL84&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQHfL4lbE1U
Paddles up until later then.
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