Paddlers invited to journey from Hope to Agassiz on World Rivers Day<\/p>\n
Published 9:45 am Tuesday, September 15, 2026<\/p>\n
A large flotilla of canoes and kayaks will make their way along the Fraser River from Hope to Agassiz this month. <\/p>\n
The World Rivers Day Guided Paddle is a chance for paddlers to celebrate World Rivers Day, and takes participants 40 km down the might Fraser on Sept. 27. <\/p>\n
The padded is expected to take most of the day, kicking off in Hope at 8 a.m. and wrapping up around 5 p.m. at the Cheam Fishing Village and Campground near Agassiz. <\/p>\n
The event is organized by the Hope Mountain Centre Centre for Outdoor Learning (HMCOL), with guides Dr. Keith Carlson and Meg Turner, program director for HMCOL<\/p>\n
Carlson is a history professor at UFV. He has been working collaboratively with Sto:lo Knowledge Keepers since 1994 to document and interpret the history of the region. All of his work is designed to answer pressing questions that emerge from within communities and that help build deeper understanding and reconciliation. He is the author of the the book that takes a deep dive into Sto:lo history, titled The Power of Place, and Problem of Time, as well as numerous articles and book chapters.<\/p>\n
Paddlers are able to bring their own boat, or hop aboard a large, guided Voyageur canoe. A motorized escort boat will join the flotilla to help keep everyone safe on the river.<\/p>\n
Participants will visit gravel bars, side channels, islands, and riparian forests that make this part of the Fraser so important to fish and wildlife.<\/p>\n
Mark Angelo, founder of World Rivers Day, calls this part of the river the \u201cHeart of the Fraser\u201d in honour of the ecological wealth found there. The Hope-to-Mission stretch produces up to 10 million pink salmon annually, and hundreds of thousands of chum salmon, and this year, the return of sockeye salmon. No other part of the Fraser produces more fish. <\/p>\n
Organizers say that \u201cas the population of this region continues to grow, it is increasingly important that we better understand and protect this incredibly important river, making this event more important than ever.\u201d <\/p>\n
To join the flotilla with your own boat is $149 per person, and to go aboard the guided canoe, the cost is $219 per person. Hope residents in their own boats pay a discounted fee of $74.50, and young boaters accompanied by an adult are free. <\/p>\n
The cost includes bus transportation back to Hope at the end of the day. <\/p>\n
The Fraser River is a high-volume river and a mix of class 1 and class 2 water rapids. Participants in their own boats must have river paddling experience and be physically able to independently maneuver their boats in turbulent water. Currents will assist paddling, so the trip is moderate in terms of physical demand. Participants will be getting in and out of the watercrafts by travelling across rocky, uneven river shore (there is no dock).<\/p>\n
\u200b\u200bVoyageur canoes hold up to 20 paddlers and each one is navigated by experienced river guides. Paddling is easy and no experience or special equipment is required. <\/p>\n
\u200bTo register and learn more about requirements, visit hopemountain.org. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paddlers invited to journey from Hope to Agassiz on World Rivers Day Published 9:45 am Tuesday, September 15,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-896861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}