The circa-1968 boat, on loan from the Canadian Canoe Museum, is part of the Royal Ontario Museum's wildly eclectic exhibition Canada Collects, a horde of art pieces, political artifacts and specimens of natural history drawn from collectors and museums across the country. Items range from Francis Bacon's Study of a Portrait No. 1 to the landing gear of the Avro Arrow to a rare Anne of Green Gables manuscript. Ironically, the canoe - a symbol of spiritual and physical divestiture to Trudeau - is part of a broadly appealing exhibit that celebrates objects and their gathering.