Canoe.com
Canadian English-language portal site and website network / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canoe.com is an English-language Canadian portal site and website network, and is a subsidiary of Postmedia Network.[3] The phrase Canadian Online Explorer[2] appears in the header; the name is also evidently a play on words on canoe (or canoë in French).
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 French version logo | |
Type of site | Web portal |
|---|---|
| Available in | English, French |
| Owner | Postmedia Network and Quebecor Media |
| URL | www |
| Launched | February 4, 1996; 28 years ago (1996-02-04)[1][2] |
Canoe's head office is in Toronto at 333 King Street East.[2][4]
At launch, Canoe was a joint venture between Sun Media (Toronto Sun Publishing Corp.) and Rogers Communications (Rogers Multi-Media Inc.) though Rogers sold its shares of Canoe to BCE Inc. within its first year.[5]
At the height of its popularity, Canoe had both English and French language version and owned a significant number of websites, including JAM! and the Sun Media newspaper sites. According to May 2008 data from comScore Media Metrix, Canoe's portals and services receive over 7.7 million unique visitors per month in Canada, including over 3.2 million in Quebec.