Category: Art & Music
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Welcoming home the Wakami Wailers
As part of Ontario Parks’ 125th anniversary celebrations, we’re very excited to announce a concert tour featuring our very own Wakami Wailers! The Wakami Wailers are long-time camper favourites, but many fans don’t realize the band first met when working at Wakami Lake Provincial Park in 1981.
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Martyn of the Madawaska
Today is dedicated to telling the story of Painted Turtle #353: “Martyn of the Madawaska” (mostly true, with some creative freedom by the author). He is not particularly unusual for a turtle but, like most, he has an interesting story that begs to be told.
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Ecosystems and music
Not sure exactly what “ecological integrity” means? Today’s post from Park Biologist Shannon McGaffey explains how ecological integrity is like music. Synergy: the creation of a whole that is bigger than the sum of the individual parts If you are listening to a symphony, you are not listening to two violins, one piano, three flutes, etc.…
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Killarney is my muse
Today’s post was written by photographer Rob Stimpson, a long-time lover of Killarney Provincial Park’s wild spaces. All photographs below are copyright to robstimpson.com. Killarney has been part of my life for years. It was one of the first canoe trips after moving from Montreal to Toronto in the late ’80s. The images I shot on…
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Protected: Take me anywhere: three playlists for your drive
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