Imagine an enormous slice taken out the Canadian Shield a few million years ago and countless rivers and streams came crashing through the white pine forests into this huge valley. Here whitewater is king. The water is always flowing, the holes are always tricky, the people always friendly, and parking is never a problem. Rivers like the Madawaska, the Petawawa, the Middle and Main Channels of the Ottawa are world-renown whitewater runs, offering everything from beginning practice sets suitable for tandem open canoe, to the bus-eating, raft stopping action of the Ottawa River.

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