Canoe.com
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 French version logo | |
Type of site | Web portal |
|---|---|
| Available in | English, French |
| Owner | Postmedia Network and Quebecor Media |
| URL | canoe |
| Launched | February 4, 1996[1][2] |
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).
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.); however, 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.
Services
[edit]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
[edit]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 (canoeklix.ca - defunct).
References
[edit]- ^ "Canoe.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
- ^ a b c "Canoe | Celebs - Trends - Travel - News - Tech | Videos | Autos". Archived from the original on 2015-04-26.
- ^ "Sale of Sun Media Corporation's English-language Operations to Postmedia Closes". quebecor.com. 2015-04-13. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
- ^ Wasny, Garrett (1999). How to Conquer the World: A Directory of 8000+ International Business Resources on the Internet. Government Institutes. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-86587-642-2.
- ^ "Welcome to CANOE!". canoe.com. 1996-10-19. Archived from the original on 19 October 1996. Retrieved 2022-06-18.