Thanks to your generous support the sun will continue to shine on Paddle Canada for years to come...   Photo Credit: www.skils.ca
John Beedel Tom Belton Patrick Crawford Jim Crellin Gerry Cyr William E Davis Brian Eddington Frank Estey Phil Gallant Bob Henderson Al Hooper Ed Jezak Adrian Johnston Owen Johnston Robert Kok Dieter Kromm	Kathy Taylor-Hallick Cataraqui Canoe Club (Kingston) Diane Livingstone Gary Luck Chris Lyle Elspeth MacEwan Marcel Maessen Les Morgan Richard G Mosley Robert Pealing Larry Polk Michael Reid Stewart B Rood Martin Roth		Peter Rowan Peter T Sabiston Tony Shaw Richard Allen Smith Terry Sprague Marlene Spruyt Tom Staebell Marg Stanford Al Stephens John Stewart Martin Talbot Dennis Teskey Alan Thomson Karen Tippett Eric Williams Kirk Wipper

 

Between 1998 and 1999, the Paddle Canada Board of Directors became aware that all was not well in Paddle Canada, and brought in an external consultant to review our business practises. The results were disastrous, revealing that Paddle Canada had incurred a 'legacy debt' of approximately one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars due to staffing issues, unknown legacy financial commitments, and past accounting practises. This situation called for an immediate change, and as you may recall, Paddle Canada went through a complete change of staff at that time.

By 2003, Paddle Canada had eliminated approximately thirty thousand dollars worth of the debt. However, we were hit with yet another blow. The property tax-free status which the Ron Johnstone Paddle Centre 'Home for Canoeing' had enjoyed for the first few years, was revoked by a change in Provincial law. Having exhausted the appeal process regarding this change Paddle Canada now also owed about three years in back property taxes; costs not envisioned when we built the Centre in 1996-97.

 

Thanks, in part, to the kindness and generosity of the proud paddlers noted on this acknowledgement page Paddle Canada has made a full recovery and is once again in a position to better support its members, the development and implementation of Paddle Canada instruction programs, and the development and support of our many excellent instructors.

You have our eternal thanks for your generous support...