canoe.com

{{Short description|Canadian English-language portal site and website network}}

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{{Infobox website

|name = Canoe.com

|logo = canoe logo.svg

|logo_caption = French version logo

|url = {{URL|http://www.canoe.com/}}

|owner = Postmedia Network and Quebecor Media

|type = Web portal

|language = English, French

|launch_date = {{start date and age|1996|2|4}}{{cite web|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/canoe.com|title=Canoe.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools|work=WHOIS|access-date=2016-08-05}}

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Canoe.com is an English-language Canadian portal site and website network, and is a subsidiary of Postmedia Network.{{cite web|url=http://www.quebecor.com/en/comm/sale-sun-media-corporation%E2%80%99s-english-language-operations-postmedia-closes |title=Sale of Sun Media Corporation's English-language Operations to Postmedia Closes |date=2015-04-13 |accessdate=2021-07-28 |website=quebecor.com}} The phrase Canadian Online Explorer{{Cite web|url=http://www.canoe.com/Help/about.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150426220912/http://www.canoe.com/Help/about.html|archive-date = 2015-04-26|title = Canoe | Celebs - Trends - Travel - News - Tech | Videos | Autos}} appears in the header; the name is also evidently a play on words on canoe (or canoë in French).

Canoe's head office is in Toronto at 333 King Street East.{{cite book |last1=Wasny |first1=Garrett |title=How to Conquer the World: A Directory of 8000+ International Business Resources on the Internet |date=1999 |publisher=Government Institutes |isbn=978-0-86587-642-2 |page=151 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w6ldT9ZvZDcC&pg=PA151 |language=en}}

At launch, Canoe was a joint venture between Sun Media (Toronto Sun Publishing Corp.) and Rogers Communications (Rogers Multi-Media Inc.); however, Rogers sold its shares of Canoe to BCE Inc. within its first year.{{cite web |url=http://www.canoe.com/Explorer/home.html |title=Welcome to CANOE! |date=1996-10-19 |accessdate=2022-06-18 |website=Canoe.com (via The Wayback Machine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961019094606/http://www.canoe.com/Explorer/home.html |archive-date=19 October 1996 |url-status=dead}}

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.