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TheReview Wednesday, July 17,1991 — A21

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by Valorie Lennox
The Review

A blue and white symbol of
achievement, the canoes of the
Tsartlip-based Geronimo Canoe
Club skim over the waves of the
Saanich Inlet daily from April to
August as club members hone
their championship-winning skills.

At the B.C. Canoe Racing
Championships, held July 7 in
Cowichan, one of the Geronimo
Club’s 11-man racing crews took
the B.C. championships.

“We have been winning through
Our season,” Says captain Wayne
P] -@ Momis.

The club sponsors two 11-man
racing crews, one 10-member
women’s racing crew and one
10-member buckskin crew for
those aged 16 and under.

Team members practise for two

spending some time paddling in
single canoes and some time run-
ning.

The club owns four 1i-man
canoes, three six-man canoes and
many single and double canoes.

Training starts in April and con-
tinues until the end of the racing
season in August. Morris said
there are about seven weekends of
{ canoe racing remaining in the
F@ @season.

“We never turn anyone down. If
they come out, we never tum
anybody down if they want to try
out,’ Morris said. Members of the
senior men’s team range from 15
to 45 years old.

Last Sunday the club sponsored
a series of canoe races off the
Tsartlip Reserve. Along with the
11-man canoe races, there were
single canoe races for children as
young as five.

“We'te trying to encourage our
youth to keep up our cultural
sport.”

In addition to the cultural
aspects of canoe racing, club
members must also keep them-
selves healthy if they want to be
. | 4 part of a team able to paddle five
to six miles in 45 minutes.

“Doing this sport, there is no
smoking, no drugs and no drink-

hours-each day, Morris said;

ing,” Morris noted.

Linked with canoe racing is the
skill required to make canoes and
paddles.

Morris and his brother Leonard
make many of the paddles for the
Geronimo team, which are painted
an eye-catching red for racing.

Many of the canoes used by the
club were made up-island, Morris
said. In his mother’s family, Mor-
ris recalls an uncle who built
canoes and paddles.

‘We're trying to
encourage our
youth to keep up
our Culfural sport’

He is now searching for a suita-

ble cedar log so club members can <

try to build a craft.

“We._want to see if we can build !
an 11-man canoe.” Such a canoe |
would measure 14 to 16 metres :
and weigh from 135 to 180 kilo- :

grams. ;

“Tt takes a lot of time and a lot ~

of effort. But it is a lot of fun and it
keeps people going,” Morris said.

Some of the effort which goes —

into the canoe club was recognized
Sunday afternoon, when young
canoe club members presented
gifts to Elders Ivan and Madeleine
Morris.

The couple received folding

chairs and an umbrella, so they

could watch races in comfort.
Tom Sampson praised Ivan

Moris’ coaching and the time and

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EDGING OUT the Duncan-based Little Salish in a close race, the Geronimo 16-anad-
under buckskin team takes first place in the six-man canoe race off the Tsartlip Reserve

VALORIELENNOX photo

Native canoes collect B.C. titles

financial support given by the
couple to the canoe club.

“Canoe pulling is really about
family and working together,”
Sampson said.

The Geronimo Club’s achieve-
ments include many champion-
ships over the past dozen years,
winning a 500-metre sprint during
the Commonwealth Games in
1990 and joining in a Molokai to
Oahu race in 1984.

But their greatest achievement is
their established reputation on the
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youth wanting to come and join
us,” Morris said.

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