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About Don Starkell
- Don Starkell (December 7, 1932 – January 28, 2012) was a Canadian adventurer, diarist and author, perhaps best known for his achievements in canoeing.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he had a difficult childhood including an abusive father, four and a half years in an orphanage, and later with a foster family in North Kildonan.
- He took up canoeing in his teens and at age 17 was named Most Outstanding Novice at the Kildonan Canoe Club.
- He competed professionally as a canoeist, winning 10 out of 12 races that he entered.
- In 1967, he was a member of the Manitoba team that competed in the Expo 67 Centennial Voyageur Canoe Pageant race from Rocky Mountain House, Alberta to Montreal, Quebec.
- The team won the race after a gruelling effort lasting 104 days.
- Starkell suffered serious burns to his legs, as well as smoke inhalation when a fire broke out in his house in Winnipeg in March, 2010.
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