Fall is upon us and as many of you are aware, October 1st is a big day for the BeaverTails Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival. Our inaugural festival in 2017 was the…

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One Hundred Teams registered in just under ten minutes for the third edition of the Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival! Athletes have registered from locations all across North America, including…

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As organizers get ready for the Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival, taking place on the water from June 22 to 25, CEO and president of the event John Brooman confirmed he’s…

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The Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival is proud to have been shown in Cultures Croisées by Ghislaine Mougel. During Winterlude and the Festival in February, Ottawa Tourism hosted a group…

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BBC covers the first ever Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival and got some nice footage too.  The ice dragon boat races were invented so people from colder areas could still enjoy…

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Le Droit  reports: Although there are still activities on the Winterlude schedule for Monday, a public holiday in Ontario, the festival's officials on Sunday set a positive record of this…

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North Country Public Radio explains what Ice Dragon Boat racing is like when competing on the ice.  The boats are modified with skates attached underneath and the paddles are modified with…

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To Do Canada  announces the schedule for the inaugural Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival to be held on February 17 & 18, 2017 at Dows Lake.  This will be a first…

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CTV News Ottawa interviewed Antony Cooper, Director of Operations and Marketing and CEO John Brooman from the Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival following practices today for the first ever Ice Dragon Boat…

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14 Paddlers from the Chatham-Kent Raging Dragons and paddlers from the Breast Buddies, who are a group of breast cancer survivors from Kent and Lambton counties, will attend the inaugural North…

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