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 French version logo | |
Type of site | Web portal |
|---|---|
| Available in | English, French |
| Owner | Postmedia Network andQuebecor Media |
| URL | www |
| Launched | February 4, 1996; 29 years ago (1996-02-04)[1][2] |
Canoe.com is an English-language Canadianportal site and website network, and is a subsidiary ofPostmedia Network.[3] The phraseCanadian Online Explorer[2] appears in the header; the name is also evidently aplay on words oncanoe (orcanoë in French).
Canoe'shead office is inToronto at 333 King Street East.[2][4]
At launch, Canoe was a joint venture betweenSun Media (Toronto Sun Publishing Corp.) andRogers Communications (Rogers Multi-Media Inc.); however, Rogers sold its shares of Canoe toBCE 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, includingJAM! and theSun 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.
Canoe offers the Canoe, La Toile du Québec (toile.com - defunct) and Argent (argent.canoe.ca or .com - defunct) portals, as well as the TVA and LCN websites.[which?] Canoe offers online services related to employment (jobboom.com).
Canoe has offered online services that have since gone defunct, abandoned or usurped. These include a site for continuing education (formation.jobboom.com - defunct), housing (micasa.ca - defunct), automobiles (autonet.ca - defunct), expert services for car dealers (ASL Internet[which?]), dating (reseaucontact.com - defunct), social networking (espacecanoe.ca - usurped), classifieds (vitevitevite.ca - defunct) and online advertising solutions (canoeklix.ca - defunct).
The main site originally operated as canoe.ca, however this domain was abandoned and later usurped by a gambling website which captures user traffic intended for the old site. Some of the old URLs might still work by changing canoe.ca to canoe.com and/or archives of canoe.com at theWayback Machine. Canoe.ca was excluded from the Wayback Machine by its new owners (the gambling website) to complicate efforts by sites like Wikipedia from directing traffic away from the gambling site. However, many archives of the .ca site are also available atArchive.today which has no exclusion policy. Finally, because Canoe is a news aggregator, many of the same articles are still available as live URLs at the other sites where Canoe originally obtained them from.
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