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Presentation (approx. 2 hours) WATERSHED MOMENTS highlights Becky's life in and around canoes and her passion for them. She will take you on a journey to the rivers, lakes and swamps of her favourite boreal forest rivers and share her adventures and her love for these places. You will also see the land through an artist's eye as Becky recounts how canoeing and the wilderness can nourish the creative soul and continue to inspire her as a visual artist. Her slide show focus is a thought provoking mix of story telling, environmental loves and concerns and Canadian canoe lore.
Intermingled with her slide show Becky will have video footage from her
video Classic Solo Canoeing and she will be sharing highlights of the best of the best
of Justine Curgenven new canoeing compilation |
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Please email: redcanoe@istar.ca if you would like to know if Becky Mason's available to teach a few canoe lessons and/or present her slide show to your paddling club or group. |
This is Canoeing Preview.
2010 winner of ‘best canoeing film’ at the Reel Paddling Film Festival and at the Waterwalker Festival. |
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Becky's Biography Becky Mason acquired her paddling skills and her fondness for canoes from her father, Bill Mason, the author and filmmaker of the Path of the Paddle series. She continues the family tradition of sharing her passion for canoeing through her canoeing courses, art and film making. 
In the year 2000, she produced an award winning video called Classic
Solo Canoeing, profiling her course and her love of paddling. Becky has also travelled the country
presenting her beautiful and captivating slide shows and she has contributed to many books on canoeing.
Some writing projects include a forward for the book “Paddling the Boreal Forest, Rediscovering
A.P. Low”,
a chapter for “The Canoe in Canadian Culture”, writing and painting images for “Rendezvous with the Wild The
Boreal Forest” and with her brother Paul she updated her father's
books “Song of the Paddle” and “Path of the Paddle”. Recently
Becky has been profiled in the new DVD "This is Canoeing" and in
the Spring 2010 issue of Canoeroots Magazine and has just been inducted as a
Patron of Paddle Canada. She is a fully accredited Paddle Canada flatwater Instructor and trainer. Becky Mason
is also a professional visual artist and has participated in a wide array of exhibitions at galleries since 1988. Becky lives in Chelsea Quebec with her husband Reid.Reid's Biography Reid McLachlan started canoeing early with his family where they explored Algonquin Park, Ontario and its surroundings. These early excursions whetted his appetite for future paddling adventures and instilled in him a love and respect for what he considers to be the perfect craft ever invented…the canoe. Since those first 
strokes Reid has paddled many miles on the rivers and lakes of Canada, has worked as a whitewater river guide
and with his wife Becky Mason, they have travelled to many parts of North America to teach canoeing. Reid is
a fully accredited Paddle Canada flatwater Instructor and trainer. But first and foremost Reid is a visual
artist. An honours graduate of the Ontario College of Art he has had solo and group shows of his paintings
in many Canadian public and private galleries. Reid is also a skilled photographer and records his trips
with Becky, his wife, these images illustrate her storytelling slideshows. Reid spends his winters painting
in his studio in the Gatineau Hills, sometimes taking time to ski and tend to his hockey rink on the river.
The summer months are spent building and repairing canoes for a local outfitter as well as travelling to
teach canoeing with Becky, and whenever possible, going on wilderness river canoe trips. And whatever Reid is
up to you can be sure he is appreciating life and all that it encompasses with laughter, love and respect.
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