Our Services
Muskoka Canoe Works is a full-service canoe shop dedicated to the continuation of the heritage of wooden canoes and wooden boats. We use high quality products and materials in combination with traditional techniques, ensuring that the high-quality aesthetic values and superior handling characteristics of these traditional vessels is maintained.
We specialize in the construction of traditional cedar canvas canoes and the restoration of all types of wooden canoes and small wooden boats. Whether you are looking for a newly built canoe, have a canoe in need of repair/restoration, or simply need new canoe seats or accessories, we can help you get paddling in a canoe outfitted to suit your needs.
In addition to full size canoes, we offer a full line of canoe inspired décor, canoe furniture and small decorative canoes for display. All our décor and furniture pieces are expertly handcrafted and highly functional, perfect for any space. All our décor and furniture items are built using the same techniques and materials used in the construction of full-size canoes and are finished to the same high standards.
Every canoe and decorative piece of furniture that leaves our shop has been handled with the upmost care and finished to the highest standards of quality so that they may be enjoyed for many generations to come.
We provide the following services

CANOE REPAIR/RESTORATION
From simple repairs to full restorations, we have the skills and experience needed to return your wooden canoe to its former glory. With almost 20 years of experience, we have encountered and worked on all construction styles and types. We guarantee our work to equal or exceed the quality of the original work, ensuring that your canoe may be enjoyed for many generations to come.
For those who love their modern-day canoe but also love the look of wood, we can trim your canoe with wooden parts (gunwales, decks, handles, seats, thwarts/yolks). We can also apply a fresh coat of varnish or paint, returning your canoe to a “like new” appearance.
BOAT REPAIR/RESTORATION
Wood boats are not all that different from a canoe and readily lend themselves to restoration and repair. From simple repairs to full restorations, and refinishing, we can return your small wooden boat to its former glowing appearance. We strive to finish your boat to the same high standards that we finish our canoes.

TRADITIONAL CEDAR-CANVAS CANOES: NEW BUILDS
We specialize in the construction of traditional cedar canvas canoes with exceptional aesthetic qualities and superior handling characteristics. Our canoes are handcrafted using high quality marine-grade products and finished to the highest standards. We construct our canoes in a way that meets or exceeds the construction standards set by the Wooden Canoe Builders Guild, thus ensuring that you receive a canoe that will stand the test of time.
CANOE SEATS
Our handcrafted canoe seats are available in a variety of traditional and modern materials and finished to the highest standards. From traditional babiche (rawhide) and hand caned seats, to modern paraline or webbing and everything in between, we have a seat to compliment your canoe.
In addition to our newly handcrafted seats, we also refurbish old canoe seats in all styles. If a seat is too badly broken to be repaired/refurbished, we can build a new seat to match the old/existing seat.

CANOE INSPIRED DECOR
We build a variety of canoe inspired décor and furniture items that are expertly handcrafted and highly functional. These pieces are constructed using traditional cedar canoe building techniques and materials and finished to the highest standards. All our décor and furniture items are built using NEW materials and are all unique due to the natural variances in the wood materials used…no two pieces will be identical!
We currently offer the following items;
- wanigans (storage chests)
- coffee tables
- hallway/sofa tables
- bookshelves
- bars
- display canoes