Paddlers to embark on 1,600-km marathon canoe race

In 1967 Vic Maxwell led a team of young paddlers 5,300 kilometres across Canada in a canoe, racing nine other teams from Rocky Mountain House, Alta., to Expo 67 in Montreal.
Maxwell, then 31, was coaching a team of First Nations paddlers from the Northwest Territories who recently graduated from residential schools.
“They were all 18 to 20 years old except for one or two,” said Maxwell of the first year he coached the team in 1965. “Most of them had never had a paddle in their