Welcome to our Sixth Dragon Boat Festival
Poster in English en français ici
[[ Map Here ]] 2011 Program and Race Results here
On June 24th and 25th, 2011 hundreds of people came to enjoy the festivities in our Fifth Annual Dragon Boat Festival held in the City of Temiskaming Shores, Ontario. This year's race saw 9 teams—198 paddlers and drummers—paddling in the beautiful blue waters of Lake Temiskaming. Although Dragon Boat racing is relatively new to Temiskaming Shores, it is being increasing in both attendance and excitement. The combination of excercise, festivity and community spirit is very attractive, and contagious. Teams are already preparing for the Sixth Dragon Boat Festival in June 2012. The fund raising has begun and members being pulled together for the team rosters.
2011
This year's fundraising efforts benefited the Team Shan Breast Cancer Awareness for Young Women ($765); Food Forever Fund ($1,937.62); and the New Liskeard Lions Club, Inc. ($1,133). This year's total raised was $3,840.62
In 2011, Claire Leveille of the Nor Arc Pirates raised the most individually with donations of $776.90.
Pictures available from the Foto Shop North. Total times for three races are on the 2011 Festival Page. To see how the teams fared on the 2011 scoreboard, click here.
Each Dragon Boat is approximately 13 meters long and holds a crew of 22 people. The race course parallels the beach. The race course is 400 meters long, and involves up to four boats. Each crew is encouraged to provide a steersperson and drummer. All entries were involved in 3 races, and the times are the total of the times for all three races.
To help sponsor next year's Dragon Boat Festival, please visit our Sponsorship page. For the rules of the races, open and save this Rules form in PDF format. To enter a team in the Dragon Boat Races, visit our Registration page.
And we invite you all to come for the fun!
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  We thank all of our 2011 Sponsors here, and list them so you can thank them and support them as well. |
For previous years Dragon Boat Festival pages.
How to Paddle a Dragon Boat Part 1 of a YouTube video explaining how to do it. Related video How to Paddle a Dragonboat-Part 2 and others listed to the right hand side on that YouTube page.
Also, a terrific book called Paddles Up! Dragon Boat Racing in Canada has training suggestions, beautiful photos and diagrams. Available from Chat Noir Books in New Liskeard or from Dundurn Press.
Dragon Boat Canada is the governing body for Dragon Boat Racing in Canada and their website includes information on the bid to host the World Dragon Boat Races in Canada in 2015.
Festival Objectives
Share the tradition of Dragon Boat Racing with other Ontario communities.
Promote the goodwill of corporate sponsors throughout Northern Ontario.
Promote a festival atmosphere featuring athletic contests and other cultural activities to enhance the quality of community life in a beautiful waterfront setting in the city.