# Canoe.com

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{{Short description|Canadian English-language portal site and website network}}
{{more citations needed|date=March 2009}}
{{Infobox website
|name             = Canoe.com
|logo             = canoe logo.svg
|logo_caption     = French version logo 
|url              = {{URL|https://canoe.com/}}
|owner            = [Postmedia Network](/source/Postmedia_Network) and [Quebecor Media](/source/Quebecor_Media)
|type             = [Web portal](/source/Web_portal)
|language         = English, French
|launch_date      = {{start date and age|1996|2|4}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/canoe.com|title=Canoe.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools|work=[WHOIS](/source/WHOIS)|access-date=2016-08-05}}</ref><ref name=helpabout />
}}
'''Canoe.com''' is an English-language Canadian [portal site](/source/portal_site) and website network, and is a subsidiary of [Postmedia Network](/source/Postmedia_Network).<ref>{{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}}</ref> The phrase '''Canadian Online Explorer'''<ref name=helpabout>{{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 &#124; Celebs - Trends - Travel - News - Tech &#124; Videos &#124; Autos}}</ref> appears in the header; the name is also evidently a [play on words](/source/play_on_words) on [canoe](/source/canoe) (or {{lang|fr|canoë}} in French).

Canoe's [head office](/source/head_office) is in [Toronto](/source/Toronto) at 333 King Street East.<ref name=helpabout /><ref>{{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}}</ref>

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

At the height of its popularity, Canoe had both English and French language version and owned a significant number of websites, including [JAM!](/source/JAM!) and the [Sun Media](/source/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.

==Services==
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.(tva.canoe.com and lcn.canoe.com) Canoe offers online services related to employment (jobboom.com).

==Defunct domains==
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|reason=which domains?|date=January 2024}}), dating (reseaucontact.com - defunct), social networking (espacecanoe.ca - usurped), classifieds (vitevitevite.ca - defunct) and [online advertising](/source/online_advertising) (canoeklix.ca - defunct).

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Quebecor Inc.}}
{{Postmedia}}

Category:Companies based in Toronto
Category:Canadian news websites
Category:Multilingual websites
Category:Quebecor
Category:Quebec websites
Category:Internet properties established in 1996
Category:1996 establishments in Canada

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