Paddle Canada – Intermediate Big Canoe Instructor

Successful candidates receive the Intermediate Big Canoe Instructor certification.
The Intermediate Big Canoe Instructor is certified to:

• conduct Introduction to Big Canoe Paddling Skills and Intermediate Big Canoe Leader courses
• apprentice on an Intermediate Big Canoe Instructor course (Advanced Leader Big Canoe Skills are required

Cost: $525/person plus PC fees

Paddle Canada Membership Membership – Instructor: $99.99/person

Instructor Course Pre-requisites:

• At least 18 years of age
• must have “sterning” a big canoe experience
• Big Canoe Instructors must teach from a solo canoe so must hold strong solo paddling skills.
• Open to the idea that this course deals with learning to control the canoe (making wide and tight turns, pivots, docking, and running through a slalom course) with a group that just paddle forward and back

PC Instructors (transfer): As this course hasn’t been offered in the province, it doesn’t transfer like other programs. For specific inquiries, please contact Priscilla Haskin padlonph@gmail.com

Registration Steps (new RAMP users): LINK