Welcome to our Dragon Boat Festival
Poster in English en français ici
Our fourth annual Dragon Boat Festival held June 25th and 26th, 2010
raised $7,857.94 this year.
[[ Map Here ]] 2010 Program and Team Standings posted here.
This year's fundraising efforts benefited the
Food Forever Fund
Diabetes Program-Temiskaming and the
New Liskeard Lions Club, Inc.
In 2009 the Nor Arc Pirates raised the most money with a total of $2,400 for the Food Forever Fund and the Curves Spitfires were second with $2,289.05.
Total funds raised in 2009 approximately $11,498.02
Go here for the program and the race results from the 2009 Festival. If you have photos you'd like to share please let the webmaster know. .
On June 26th and 27th, 2009 saw hundreds of people come to enjoy the festivities in our Third Annual Dragon Boat Festival held in the City of Temiskaming Shores, Ontario. Presented by the New Liskeard Lions Club, the City of Temiskaming Shores, and the Chinese Heritage Association of Northern Ontario, last year's race saw 13 teams—286 paddlers and drummers—paddling in the beautiful blue waters of Lake Temiskaming. Although Dragon Boat racing is relatively new to Temiskaming Shores, it is being increasing in both attendance and excitement. The combination of excercise, festivity and community spirit is very attactive, and contagious. Total times for three races are on the 2009 Festival Page. To see how the teams fared on the 2009 scoreboard, click here.
Each Dragon Boat is approximately 13 meters long and holds a crew of 22 people. The race course parallels the beach. The race course is 400 meters long, and involves up to four boats. Each crew is encouraged to provide a steersperson and drummer. All entries were involved in 3 races, and the times are the total of the times for all three races.
To help sponsor next year's Dragon Boat Festival, please visit our Sponsorship page. For the rules of the races, open and save this Rules form in PDF format. To enter a team in the Dragon Boat Races, visit our Registration page.
And we invite you all to come for the fun!
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Festival Objectives
Share the tradition of Dragon Boat Racing with other Ontario communities.
Promote the goodwill of corporate sponsors throughout Northern Ontario.
Promote a festival atmosphere featuring athletic contests and other cultural activities to enhance the quality of community life in a beautiful waterfront setting in the city.
For previous years Dragon Boat Festival pages.
How to Paddle a Dragon Boat Part 1 of a YouTube video explaining how to do it. Related video How to Paddle a Dragonboat-Part 2 and others listed to the right hand side on that YouTube page.
