Canadian Canoe Museum, Watercraft museum in Peterborough, Canada

The Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough holds more than 600 canoes and kayaks and over 1,000 related artifacts. Its new building, opened in May 2024 on Ashburnham Drive beside Little Lake and the Trent–Severn Waterway lock, displays dugout and birchbark vessels from Indigenous nations and settler traditions.

Kirk Wipper founded the Kanawa Museum at Camp Kandalore, north of Minden, Ontario, in 1957, after a friend gave him a dugout made around 1890. The collection outgrew its wooden buildings, and in 1994 Wipper transferred control to the organization now called the Canadian Canoe Museum. It opened to the public in a former outboard motor factory in Peterborough on Canada Day 1997, and moved to a new building by Little Lake on 11 May 2024.

The displays show watercraft used by Indigenous communities and settlers as transportation, with each style revealing how people adapted to Canada's waterways and landscape. Visitors can observe these vessels and understand the practical knowledge behind their design.

The museum is at 2077 Ashburnham Drive, on the edge of Little Lake beside the Trent–Severn Waterway canal lock. It is open daily from 10 am to 5 pm. Allow several hours for the galleries and the Preserving Skills area.

In October 2001 the museum opened Reflections: The Land, the People and the Canoe, displaying Pierre Trudeau's buckskin jacket and birchbark canoe publicly for the first time, alongside items of paddlers Bill Mason, Victoria Jason and Eric Morse. Since 2002 it has invited canoe builders from First Nations and Inuit communities each year to pass on construction knowledge.