Canadian Canoe Museum Announces $1.775 Million Transformative Gift for New Waterfront Campus
/The Canadian Canoe Museum (CCM) announced Thursday a transformative gift of $1,775,000 to create a vibrant, community-oriented waterfront campus along the shores of the Museum’s future home at 2077 Ashburnham Drive.
Jeremy Ward (Curator), Rodger Wright (Fundraising Cabinet volunteer), Carolyn Hyslop (Executive Director), Stu Lang (donor), Helen Batten (Landscape Architect, Basterfield & Associates Ltd.) and David Hadden (Fundraising Cabinet volunteer) during a visit to the CCM’s future home. photo courtesy of the canadian canoe museum.
The Lakefront Campus and Gathering Circle, made possible by the philanthropic efforts of former CFL player and businessman Stuart (Stu) Lang and his wife, Kim, will offer visitors the chance to learn and build connections with the land, water, and community through immersive, authentic outdoor experiences that will create a new generation of paddlers.
The CCM's future home features a 5.3-acre Lakefront Campus that will extend and enhance the museum experience, offering visitors a variety of outdoor activities both on and off the water. The 1,200 feet of shoreline, docks, boardwalk, restored and naturalized spaces, and wetland will act as a multi-purpose outdoor classroom for learners of all ages and be an active community space.
"We are incredibly grateful and fortunate for the passion, vision, and generosity of the Langs. Stu has taken great pride in helping craft an active waterfront that can complement the Museum, with many of the ideas for the Lakefront Campus coming from Stu himself. This gift, confirmed in the fall of 2022, has grown to the transformative gift it is today because of the Langs’ commitment to excellence and elevating the CCM to a national level," said Carolyn Hyslop, executive director.
![The future home of The Canadian Canoe Museum, set to open later this summer or early fall, will invite visitors to walk in the front door of the Museum and paddle out the back with an array of outdoor programming on its new Lakefront Campus. Render](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cca155e4b0c301a8212ad4/1680180355739-T8OAZ7P7UE7XH0GBXF8D/Canadian+Canoe+Museum+-+Aerial+of+Museum+%26+Lakefront+Campus+-+Render+by+Lett+Architects+Inc.jpg)
![A conceptual illustration of the Lakefront Campus and Gathering Circle. The new 65,000 square-foot museum and 5.3-acre Lakefront Campus on the Trent-Severn Waterway will not only care for the watercraft and chronicle their history, but it will also](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cca155e4b0c301a8212ad4/1680180351276-ZMSWD7J6O9ONULCCMS4K/21-05-CCM-Gathering-Circle-Design-Brief_B%26A-10.jpg)
![A conceptual illustration of the Lakefront Campus and Gathering Circle. The new 65,000 square-foot museum and 5.3-acre Lakefront Campus on the Trent-Severn Waterway will not only care for the watercraft and chronicle their history, but it will also](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cca155e4b0c301a8212ad4/1680180356439-A5DJPWD21YAI88R102QV/CCM-Illustration-for-Marketing_2021-Dec-15_final.jpg)
![An aerial view of the Lakefront Campus, taken on February 13, depicting construction on the boardwalk and Canoe House. Photo courtesy of The Canadian Canoe Museum.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50cca155e4b0c301a8212ad4/1680180360829-FRZJ305UD56WW24Z1O7N/Feb+13+2023+-+9+Waterfront+Campus+Aerial.jpeg)