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Le Nouvelliste Enters the Race

Teams of canoeists, including Le Nouvelliste’s team, line up their wooden canoes on the starting line.

Archives du Séminaire de Trois-Rivières, Albert Tessier Fonds, 0014-P1-63-03.

Canoeists take their place at the start of the third Classique internationale de canots de la Mauricie in 1936. That year, the Le Nouvelliste daily paper sponsored a team made up of Charlie K-8-ishish and his son Thomas, two strong men from the Manouan reserve.

However, victory went to Jean Lemay and Armand Sauvageau who took more than fifteen hours to complete the race.