Finding a canoe in Labrador can be likened to finding a canoe on Baffin Island or some other far fetched, difficult place to get to. A place where few people actually know where it is or a place that has very minimal infrastructure for tourism. The saving grace we had in our quest is the fact that English is the spoken language of Labrador, although that can be considered a stretch at times.
The obvious places to begin the search for a canoe are to locate the biggest town and then figure out if you know anybody in that area, and if anybody you know, knows somebody who might know. Next, contact all these people. When that fails try calling all the marinas and outfitters. If there are non of these, maybe a rent all place might have one. If still no, call the town hall and ask the lady on the other end if she knows somebody with a canoe. If still no luck (as was the case with us) find a local business phone number, any number and give it a call. The number I called was a video rental store and I believe the lady at the check out desk asked her only customer if he knew where we could find a canoe. As luck would finally have it, he did. This mans first cousin had canoes that could be rented/borrowed.
So, now that we have a 17 foot Old Town canoe waiting for us in a town 3000km away that we have never been too, and found a shuttle to deliver it 300km west to the down of Churchill Falls, we will in fact be paddling the mighty Grand River of Labrador. WaHOOOOOO!!!!!!
