2016 participating teams Accreditation Canada Aero Flash Aquaholics Art Bank Broad Strokes

Asian Dragons Babcock Basilisks

BAD TO THE BONE!

Barbarrians Beerded Dragons Blades of Glory Blazing Paddles Boaty McBoatFace bobblake.ca Bureaucrats on Board Busting Out Courage

Group of coworkers paddling together for the last 5 years and for fun! The Art Bank Broad Strokes are an advanced recreational team. We enjoy each other's company, on and off the water, and promote a supportive team environment. We love participating in the Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival and contributing to our local community. We have been a team for approximately 18 years. We are always up for a race. We like to challenge and push ourselves. The Babcock Basilisks are a mixed team of intrepid paddlers representing Babcock Canada. Babcock Canada provides critical and complex support to strategically important assets, infrastructure and training programs primarily in the defence and security. We are employees representing CMA. With more than 30 years of experience and a team of 150 healthcare experts in 21 locations, CMA is Canada’s largest diagnostic imaging service provider. We offer the Ottawa region a full range of services including X-ray, general and vascular ultrasound, mammogram, BMD, and cardiac diagnostics. This is our first year participating but don't underestimate us! We have heart, CMA team spirit is high, and we're ready to have fun! We are BAD TO THE BONE!

9th year competing and always competitive Busting Out Courage is a great group of strong women having fun

Busting Out Spirit Bytown Ottawa Dragon Masters (ODM) Canadian Federation of Chinese Students Canoe Paddle Faster? Carbon Raiders Cascades Remixed Cascades Women Catch 22 CBSA Dragonreers Chicks with Sticks

Chinatown Showboat

Chinook Mojos CIBC Fire-Breathing Penguins CIHR Crews Control CMC Dragoneers CMHA Paddling Devils Cowater International

CU in 'R Wake

DBB Destroyers Dirty Oars Draggin' Behinds Draggin' Blades

Ottawa's Breast Cancer Team for many years and a great group of strong women who enjoy life!

It's Cascades, but remixed.

If you've ever attended the Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival, you may have noticed a lively group of eclectic paddlers in colourful costumes, perhaps cheering or even dancing on occasion. This mixed recreational dragon boat team, Chinatown's Showboat, has been paddling together since 2002. Sponsored by Ottawa's Chinatown, we are all about our community! Throughout the year, we work hard to raise awareness and resources for the charities of the Ottawa Dragon Boat Foundation. The Mojos have been through many reincarnations over our 15 year history from the Thrusting Mojos to Mojos Reloaded to our current persona as the Chinook Mojos. Our paddlers come from all over the GTA.

CU in 'R Wake is the Staff and Faculty Dragonboat Team at Carleton University. We represent many diverse units across campus and have seated a team at the Ottawa Dragonboat festival for over 10 years! We are a team of dance moms from the Dana Hanes Dance Company. We share a passion, and spend many hours supporting our kids in doing something they love. Our studio is only two years old, but at DHDC, we are a family; every member of this group has overcome challenges to come together. We share a strong connection, and will take this opportunity to show our kids how, as parents, we can do what they do every day - share each other's talents, collaborate as a team, and strive for a common goal. We are the Destroyers. We destroy! The Draggin' Behinds was formed in 2011 and is made up of members of various ages.

Draggin' Docs

Dragon Our Asses Dragon X Dragoncatchers Eggscalibur

EORC EU in Canada EY Beamers FABs Fabulous Dragonettes

Family Services Ottawa Fetal Attraction

Filthy Oars Fire (Senior A) Fire Breathin Mamas Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies Firm Strokers Fleet of Foote

Fleet of Foote Too

The Draggin' Docs have been participating in the Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival since 2008. We are a team of doctors from Ottawa who have the team motto of fun, fashion, fitness, friendship and fundraising. health care workers imaging department at the Montfort hospital Egg Farmers of Canada is a not-for-profit national organization that helps hard-working farmers supply Canadians with fresh, local, high-quality eggs. Our team manages the national egg supply and promotes the benefits of eating eggs.

We are FABULOUS. Time has made us stronger, wiser, more confident, independent, determined and patient. We come from very diverse backgrounds and work in many different fields. What we have in common is that we are women. That’s just glorious right there. We all live in Ottawa and surrounding area. We are developing friendships and connections; doing things we love, being happy and healthy. Now we hope to give back to the community we live in by participating in and raising funds for ODBF. Family Services Ottawa has been offering counselling and support services to anybody in Ottawa who needs it for over 100 years. No matter what it is that you’re dealing with, we’re here to listen. All women's team. Supported by Maternal Fetal Medicine at the Ottawa Hospital. Originally mostly hospital and community nurses and support staff. Still some of the original members but now mostly friends. We participate in the festival every year because we all love paddling and supporting the charities in our community. We like to win....and we do well.

Fleet of Foote has been paddling and raising money for the community for the last 22 years. A team of hard paddling and fun loving members of all ages we enjoy both the sport of Dragon Boating and the comradery of team activities on and off the water. Fleet of Foote has been paddling and raising money for the community for the last 22 years. A team of hard paddling and fun loving members of all ages we enjoy both the sport of Dragon Boating and the comradery of team activities on and off the water.

Flickin Awesome

Fluorescent Platypuses Girls in the 'Hood GMGs (Senior B)

Good Gulls Bad Buoys GRULA

GTB GTB Girls GWN Premier Mixed Heavy Water Dragons

Hellfish Her Arms Hurt Herricane Winds

Hobins Ark

This is our first year at the festival and we are super excited to participate. The team is made up of talent beyond anyone's imagination. Buoy (pun absolutely intended) can they shoot, play and do some serious Flickin damage. A strong family of brilliant people who are coming together to compete in this amazing festival. Our first goal is fun but we will Flick some serious power on. So let’s get Flickin with it. The Fluorescent Platypuses are initially a soccer team in Ottawa. This summer, the platypuses are dragon boating for the first time and are very much excited about this new adventure. Dragonheart Vermont Green Mountain Girls is a senior B Women's team with all members 50 years old and above. Our team is made of women supporters and breast cancer survivors who all hold dear our goal of stamping out breast cancer! Dragonheart Vermont's Green Mountain Girls team is a vibrant group comprised of Senior B women. The strength and beauty of these ladies is matched only by laughter they share and the love they have for each other. We look forward to participating in one of our favorite festivals at Ottawa. Group of Latin American Ambassadors and Charge of Affairs a.i. ( Argentina, Bolivia Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay & Venezuela).

A third year team made up of coworkers from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. You can tell by our name, Heavy Water Dragons, that we are the coolest members of a scientific organization you will ever meet! Herricane Winds 15 years ago, some (OCSB) teachers discussed creating an all-female team focused on fun, fitness and service to others. What could accommodate 20+ of our closest friends? A dragon boat team where we are socializin', sportin', and supportin' various local charities! Herricane Winds remains an all-female team. As our paddle performance progresses, our pledges proliferate! Our roster is an intergenerational mix of friends and family resolved to fundraise and make the finals! Barry J. Hobin & Associates Architects Incorporated is a local Ottawa based architectural practice which offers a comprehensive range of services within the institutional, recreational, commercial and residential sectors. Our design philosophy embodies the team approach, which we put to the test at this year’s Dragon Boat Festival. Hobin Ark-itects, proud to be part of this great event.

Holy Rowers Honey town

Hot Buttered Elves

Humber Bay DBC Intact Express JLR Dragons Krakalackin Les TransÉnergiques Les turbines Let 'Er Run Level Six Galley Girls Lipstick Dragons

Liu Dental Centres Living Root

Lockview Monster Mad Paddlers Made to Paddle

Mann Overboard

Mann Up!

MD Mad Dragons Merchant Link Dragons

Staff and friends of Immaculata High School. Honey town cafe are local dessert restaurant locate at Chinatown, Ottawa. We believe a great restaurant are not just about food and service, but it should have a lot contribution to the local community! The Hot Buttered Elves is an eclectic bunch of friends joined through a couple degrees of separation. None of us have ever paddled a dragon boat, some have not swam in a while, though all are well versed in holding a bottle of beer or wine.

2014 Club Crew World Champions (Ravenna, Italy) Entering our 6th year at TH, the Lipstick Dragons are a group of Barrhaven moms that like to work hard and play harder. When not paddling, we can be found running our kids to arenas, fields, pools, tracks, gyms and diamonds. We look forward to hearing all those little voices cheering us on from the grandstands again this year! Founded in 2005 by a pod of dolphins, Living Root is a Boston team that poses a serious threat to gold medals everywhere. Our silver stripes pay tribute to our ancestors'' sleek silver bodies, as does our love for uncooked herring and mackerel. 5th Annual Neighbours and Friends Tradition!! Our goal is to be invited to participate in the race on Sunday, but to respectfully decline. Made to Paddle (MTP) is an Ottawa based team that started paddling together in the spring of 2009. Mostly made up with beginner paddlers, we soon caught the dragonboating bug and have been slowly improving our performance year to year. Mann Overboard is the Mann Lawyers' Dragon Boat Team. We are mix of lawyers and support staff who are interested in competing but also in having fun. We are also raising money for this very important charity. Mann Up! represents the proud team of Mann Lawyers LLP. We are as passionate about our clients as we are about participating in the festival! We are all looking forward to being part of the fun at the festival, both on the water and off! Merchant Link Dragons are a small team of employees and friends who are getting together to have a fun time away from work doing something worth while.

Meridian CU Imagine Dragons MH Iron Oars Minto Hammerin' Down The River MixStream

Modern Niagara Rocks and Rows Movers and Shakers

Na'amat Newbies

Nauticlew Nous Novotel Oarable Paddlers Oartinis ORCC Dames ORCC Dukes & Dames OSSC Dragon Boat Team!

Ottawa Dragon Boat Transit Ottawa Phoenix OutCare Foundation Palliative Care Paddlers PADDLE DEMONS

Meridian's Bank Street Branch is Back!

Mélangez dans un grand bateau aux allures de dragon : des francophones, des anglophones, des gars et des filles de partout, des brutes, des princesses. Ajoutez-y une grande dose de plaisir. Préparez le tout avec des entraînements rigoureux et des réchauffements absurdes. Regularly stir in Mooney’s Bay water and funny cheers. MixStream is a simple recipe that has largely proven its worth since its creation in 2010! Paddles up--up and away! "Movers and Shakers" will be taking the water in the 2016 Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival in hopes of fun and bringing home some new hardware. Our team has been spearheaded by the wonderful folks of Ottawa's, Helping with Furniture , who spend countless hours collecting donations delivering furniture and household items to new Canadians and families in need. They have hearts of gold and pack some serious muscle! We have also enlisted the help of friends and family to help complete our community crew. As part of an international women’s organization, Na’amat Ottawa is a registered Canadian charity with branches in 5 provinces. Since Na’amat Canada’s inception in 1925, our mission has been dedicated to enhancing the quality of life of women, children and families in Israel and in Canada.

The Oartinis are a great group of fun loving stoke and distance friends, who love to paddle. Some have been on the boat for years, while others are new to the paddles up fun! Ottawa Dragon Boat Transit is comprised of the hard working individuals that help manage the Ottawa Light Rail Transit Constructors, the group responsible for constructing the new light rail transit in Ottawa.

The OutCare Foundation Palliative Care Paddlers is a team of volunteers and donors who support the work of the OutCare Foundation. The Foundation is a registered charity that supports palliative care across Eastern Ontario.

Paddle Like A Mother

Paddlers Anonymous daBoat

Paddle Like a Mother is a tribe of fabulous community moms raising a bunch of fun, cool kids! We cook, clean, coach sports, volunteer for school activities & chauffeur our little darlings to all places near and far. Paddlers Anonymous DaBoat has been an active member of Toronto's dragon boat community since 2000. The team is known to be a fun, social bunch with a strong competitive spirit! We look forward to new challenges and to be part of this year’s Festival. We’re ready to paddle hard and of course, have fun!

Panaceaa Party Oars Paterson Paterlers PDBC Senior C Mixed PDBC Varsity People in a Boat P'sidens

Psirens

RCMP 22 Horsepower RealTime Dragons Rideau Titans Premier Men River Sisters Rowmania

The P'sidens, a co-ed recreational team has been proud to take part ODBF since June 2011. With the Psirens' name originating in Greek legend, the only suitable name for the new team would be in honour of Poseidon, the Greek god of water, as drawn by Edwin Wong. You'll note that our "P'siden" is appropriately holding a paddle in lieu of a trident. The spelling, P'sidens, was a tongue-in-cheek reference to their sister team's finickiest regarding spelling. Regardless, we pwn! We slaughter! The P'sidens rule the water! As an Ottawa-based women's recreational-gone-competitive team, we train at the Rideau Canoe Club and have participated in local dragon boat festivals since 2008. Most importantly, we lure! We devour! The Psirens have the power! We decided on “Psirens” which has history as a Greek legend of fatally beautiful women who sat on the rocks and distracted sailors, luring them to their watery graves with their enchanting music and voices. As for pronunciation, the “P” is silent, it’s the original spelling, derived from the Greek letter “psi”. Just like in psychology. We're a new crew and still working on a BIO. We will update in the new year. Men's Dragon Boat team from Ottawa, Ontario. Practices at the Rideau Canoe Club. Coach : Bruce Raymond Members of Dragon Boat Canada (DBC) and Ottawa Dragon Boat Club (ODBC) This is the fourth year of River Sisters and our goal is to have fun and enjoy being on the water with an awesome crew of ladies!! Paddles Up!! A team made up of Embassy staff and members of the Romanian community in Ottawa, paddling to raise awareness of Romanian heritage in water sports (Romanian Ivan Patzaichin was Olympic Gold medalist competing in a canoe 4 times and 6 times World Champions.

Runners On Water Running on Water

Schuylkill Dragons Gold Schuylkill Dragons Purple Scotiabank Spitfires (White) Scotiabank Spitfires Red Screening Dragons

Seincr'eau Shenglin Dragon Warriors Showgirls Soldiers of Fitness Soldiers of Fitness Women Something on Fire Something's on Fire Sportchicks Fire

A third year team of friends who enjoy being on the water together as much as we love running the roads and pathways of Ottawa together. Running on Water have been racing at the Ottawa festival for many years and are an Intermediate team who train hard, race hard but also have a lot of fun & although we don't take ourselves too seriously we do like win and have had great success over the years!

This is an evergreen team of cross-pollinators working together to create synergy between teams in our division. This is our first year participating, a spring board, into Dragon Boat Racing. By participating this year we hope to build capacity in order to branch out and utilize talent management techniques for stronger results in the long-term. We are looking forward to facilitating and engaging the other teams in friendly competition and pushing out our borders to meet new people. Seincr’eau is a Montreal located Breast Cancer Survivors Dragon Boat team. We are women embracing life by paddling in sink, and remembering how fragile life can be but how strong we still feel.

Soldiers of Fitness is comprised of candidates and Instructors from the Soldiers of Fitness Boot Camp program. Each year the Soldiers of Fitness team moves closer to the top spot, hitting the A division in the Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival last year. Sportchicks have been paddling for 5 years. Our first festival was the Ottawa Dragon Boat festival and that is where we fell in love with the sport. The initial goal was 12 practice and the Ottawa festival.... well 5 years later.... we have been to Italy for the Worlds Club Crew in the Senior A division and came back with 3 silvers, we have been to Australia to win gold as Sr B and we have developed national level paddlers.

Sportchicks Ice

Strikeforce STROKE IT! swamplilies SWAT (Stonehooker Warlock Alliance Team) Taiwan Team Ericsson Telfer Thunder Telfer Torpedos terrylonghorn.com That's a Paddlin! That's What She Said The Bentonite Seals The HEAT The HEAT - open The HEAT - women The League of Extraordinary Paddlers

The LiVE 88.5 Boaty Mcboatface!! The Misfits The Nolan Crew

The ORCC Minors The Royal Oakers The Valecraft Velocity The Vertebrae The Village People THUNDERSTRUCK!

Tim Hortons

Sportchicks have been paddling for 5 years. Our first festival was the Ottawa Dragon Boat festival and that is where we fell in love with the sport. The initial goal was 12 practice and the Ottawa festival.... well 5 years later.... we have been to Italy for the Worlds Club Crew in the Senior A division and came back with 3 silvers, we have been to Australia to win gold as Sr B and we have developed national level paddlers.

Woman's Competitive Team from Golden Horseshoe

An intelligence agency asked to assemble a league of extraordinary individuals to compete in the Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival, brought together this team: The League of Extraordinary Paddlers. We competed for the first time last year and were shocked ... *ahem* ... PROUD to win a first place Charity Cup, and medals in the C Finals division. We look forward to continuing our development on the water this season and having another awesome race weekend! The LiVE 88.5 Boaty McBoatface team is a group of rookies looking to break into the world of Dragon boating! Please be patient with us... In 1996, two Nolan sisters and their sons went to see the Ottawa Dragon Boat festival. They imagined that one day they would create a dragon boat team with their children. In 2010, that dream came true and the Nolan Crew was created.

E5 Orthopaedics nurses, physio, and family Thunderstruck is Sunnyside’s In-house program for individual paddlers. In its 5th year, the program is built on teamwork, commitment, sound technique, personal improvement, and of course friendship and support!

TITUS TITANS Toronto firefighters Toronto firefighters2 Toronto's One Gorgeous Boat Trend Micro Dragons TwoAbreast - Côte-ÀCôte Verdun Force Vintage Queers

Vocantas Wake Up Warriors Wakebusters Water Bugs Water Nymphs Waterborne Pathogens WeJahMin We're Listing

WILD WOMEN ON WATER Win In BULK Wonder Women

We are a collective team of paddlers from various LGBT teams in Toronto. We are very excited to be coming to Ottawa to meet local teams and experience one of the top festivals in the world! Two Abreast/Côte-à-côte was established in the fall of 1997, patterned after the original Breast Cancer Survivor team, Abreast in a Boat (Vancouver). We train year-round and also do circuit training. During winter months we paddle in an indoor paddling The Ottawa Senior Pride Network (OSPN) was formed in 2008 to serve LGBT seniors 50+ Through a network of LGBT community members and allies we work to create: • A strong, connected, visible senior queer community • LGBT culturally-appropriate and safe senior services and residential environments. • We build on the strengths and resiliency of LGBT seniors and treat them as active agents in their own well-being. • We recognize the diversity of the LGBT aging community including those with disabilities, with lower incomes, who are marginalized, and who are less connected to social supports. • We believe that all LGBT seniors have a right to culturally proficient services in community agencies, long-term care organizations, home-care agencies, and palliative care services. https://www.facebook.com/groups/WakebustersOttawa/

A colourful mix of man from the GTA teams already racing in the Mixed division. Men of all ages and colour. We're a team of real estate agents, family & friends from RE/MAX Affiliates Realty Ltd, a full service brokerage committed to helping Ottawa families receive the best real estate guidance when buying or selling a home. Enthusiasm, teamwork & being involved with our community are hallmarks of our company. Our goal is to raise some money for charity & have fun. And we hope the only listing going on for us is of houses... not our boat!

WSP Conquer'Oars

For the past several years, WSP Canada, one of the largest multidiscipline consulting engineering firms in Ottawa, has participated in the Tim Horton's Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival. The 2016 edition of the WSP Conquer'Oars is back again this year ready to hit the water! The team is made up first time and returning paddlers ready to improve on last year's results both on the water and, more importantly, with fundraising. READY, READY!

YSB Foundation

Working together with Youth Services Bureau (YSB), the YSB Foundation raises critical resources that support the programs and services that empower and better the lives of at-risk youth from across the City of Ottawa. The Youth Services Bureau Foundation (YSB) of Ottawa, is a small yet might “crew “of dedicated community members who are committed to making a difference in the lives of at-risk youth and their families in our city. We belief in the work of YSB, and are paddling to help “steer” youth down calmer waters to reach their full potential! Proud paddlers from the Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa!

YSB Ready Ready