Peterborough’s Lett Architects Inc. will be designing the new Canadian Canoe Museum at Johnson Park on Ashburnham Drive.

The museum announced on Tuesday (December 22) that the property at 2077 Ashburnham Drive, which is owned by the City of Peterborough, has been deemed viable for the building of the new facility.

“We are thrilled that recently concluded due diligence explorations, environmental assessments, testing and feasibility studies have substantiated the Johnson Park location as a viable site for the building of the new world-class canoe museum,” says Carolyn Hyslop, the museum’s executive director.

Hyslop says the museum will move to the next phase of feasibility and validation activities for the Johnson Park site, which is located on the west side of Ashburnham Drive, north of Beavermead Park and south of Parks Canada’s Trent-Severn Waterway head offices. The site is a short walk to the shores of Little Lake.

“This process will help us fine tune budget and overall costs, design and the project schedule with a view to being shovel-ready by the end of 2021,” Hyslop says.

According to a media release from the museum, the new facility will be built away from the floodplain, on a flat portion of the property on the open land along Ashburnham Drive.

“This will preserve the existing trail, shoreline and natural waterfront,” the museum states.

The museum also announced that Lett Architects Inc. of Peterborough will be designing the new museum.

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