Canada Day

Dragon Boat Regatta

Taking place Saturday, July 1, 2023 (Canada's 156^th birthday)
on Toronto's Centre Island (Allan A. Lamport Regatta Course).
Our boats and docks are supplied by GWN Events.

This is the 21st annual event with dragon boats!

Mixed Gender Division only - $1,095/team (no taxes added)
Four races: 500m, 200m, 200m, 500m final

Last year (2022) we honoured Jim Farintosh who brought the sport to this event 20 years earlier. This year (2023) we will be honouring Ramsay Drummond-Young and Jackie Taggart who founded Lively Dragon and are a big part of the dragon boat community (especially the Rusty Dragons).

2023 TEAMS (8 as of Feb 7th, 2023) - capacity: 12 teams
1. Guns n Roses

2. We Will Rock You

3. Liberty Waves

4. Miracle Dragons

5. Library of Conquest

6. Lively Dragon & Friends

7. Motley Crew International (collective team)

and the Spirit Dragons .

Is your team interested?
Contact Tim@RustyDragons.ca for more information.

Welcoming all dragon boat teams from across the province. This event is part of one of the oldest mixed sport regattas in the world, involving canoe clubs and rowing clubs since 1884, and then dragon boats added in 2003 as the third sport. The event is run by the Dominion Day Regatta Association (DDRA), for which Tim MacFarlane is the Dragon Boat Coordinator and general committee member since 2007. Ontario Public Service (OPS) employees have volunteered to coordinate the dragon boat portion of this event since the start, hence the reference to being the unofficial OPS Canada Day Regatta (Tim works for the OPS). Rusty Dragons Adventures Inc are now officially the producers of the dragon boat portion of this event, which is limited to 18 teams due to the canoe, kayak, and rowing races also on the race card. This is a small recreational regatta located on scenic Toronto Islands on Canada Day.

Welcoming all dragon boat teams from across the province

This event is part of one of the oldest mixed sport regattas in the world, involving canoe clubs and rowing clubs since 1884, and then dragon boats added in 2003 as the third sport.

The event is run by the Dominion Day Regatta Association (DDRA), for which Tim MacFarlane is the Dragon Boat Coordinator and general committee member since 2007. Ontario Public Service (OPS) employees have volunteered to coordinate the dragon boat portion of this event since the start, hence the reference to being the unofficial OPS Canada Day Regatta (Tim works for the OPS). Rusty Dragons Adventures Inc are now officially the producers of the dragon boat portion of this event, which is limited to 18 teams due to the canoe, kayak, and rowing races also on the race card. This is a small recreational regatta located on scenic Toronto Islands on Canada Day.

Welcoming dragon boat teams

This event is part of one of the oldest mixed sport regattas in the world, involving canoe clubs (ICF) and rowing clubs (FISA) since 1884, and then dragon boats (IDBF) were added in 2003 as the third sport.

The event is run by the Dominion Day Regatta Association (DDRA), for which Tim MacFarlane is the Dragon Boat Coordinator and general committee director since 2007. Rusty Dragons Adventures Inc are now officially the producers of the dragon boat portion of this event, which is limited to 12 mixed teams due to the canoe, kayak, and rowing races also on the race card. This is a small recreational regatta located on scenic Toronto Islands on Canada Day.