Canoes

The Olympic torch relay in Canada was definitely the longest in Olympic history as it travelled a distance of 45,000 kilometers throughout the country, visiting 1037 communities along the way. There were 12,000 lucky torchbearers from across Canada who travelled with the torch— runners, hockey players, First Nation chiefs, and even canoeists.

1,000 kilometers of the torch relay travelled over water and some of that distance was by canoe—quite appropriate for a country that up until quite recently (the last century or so) used canoes as a main mode of transport.

From places in Nova Scotia to British Columbia, canoes were used in the Olympic torch relay, from when it left on October 30^th, 2009. The final day, 106 days later on the opening day of the Olympics, the torch passed to the final canoe—a Clipper 29’ Langley Voyageur canoe, which a team paddled across False Creek in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. A dragon boat carrying Olympic K-2 paddler and medal winner Hugh Fisher (at the '84 LA Olympics) passed the flame on to Olympic K-4 paddler Kamini Jain.

Anybody know how many canoes were used in the torch relay?

Source: Ryan Bayes, Clipper Canoes

Photo Credit: Lethal Weapon photography