| Eugene Arima Ethnologist, Parks Canada | Thoughts on the Development of Artic Skin Watercraft and Aboriginal Canoes | Shana Balaz Frost Centre, Trent University | Aboriginal Involvement Within Selected Canadian Museums: Developing a Model for the Canadian canoe Museum | Jamie Benidickson Professor of Law, University of Ottawa | Idleness, Water and the Canoe: Image, Symbol and Experience | Don Burry Physical Education, University of Alberta | Canoe and the Art of Canadian Cultures | Phil Chester Teacher and Author | Canoe Function and Dysfunction: The Stories of Bill Mason and Grey Owl | James Cullingham Documentary Film Maker, Toronto | The Canoe, Treaty-making and Duncan Campbell Scott | Max Finklestein Canadian Heritage River System | The Canoe as a Communication Medium for Affecting a Paradigm Shift | Ned Franks Professor of Politics, Queen's University | The Canoe and Poetry | Ralph Frese Canoe Builder and Historian | The Canadians and the Canadian Canoe in the Opening of the American Midwest | 
| Barry Gough Professor of History, Wilfred Laurier University | Sir Alexander Mackenzie, The Canoe and the River | |
| Bob Henderson Professor of Kinesiology, McMaster University | The Canoe as a Way to Another Story | |
| Bruce Hodgins Professor of History, Trent University | The Canoe as Chapeau: The Role of the Portage in Canoe Culture | |
| Gwyneth Hoyle Author, Frost Centre, Trent University | The Dark Side of the Canoe | |
| John Jennings Professor of History, Trent University | The Canoe, Museum and The Restoration of Canadian Unity | |
| Michael Ketemer Watercraft Scholar/Birchbark Builder, Trent University | Towards a Cross-Cultural Semiotics of Traditional Watercraft | |
| Peter Labor Manager, Naturally Superior Adventures, Wawa | The Canot de Maitre - Master of the Inland Seas | |
| Ken Lister Acting Curator, Dept. of Ethnology, ROM | Extremely Cranky Craft, The James W. Tyrell Kayak, Big Island, Hudson Strait | |
| George Luste Professor of Physics, University of Toronto and Co-ordinator of Canoeing Symposium | The Tradition of Wilderness Travel | |
| Gary Potts Former Chief, Teme-Augama Anishnabai | The Canoe in Teme-Augama Anishnabai Culture | |
| Alister Thomas Journalist, Calgary, Alberta | Paddling Voices | |
| John Wadland Professor of Canadian Studies, trent University | The Canoe: A Domesticated Tree |