Parks Blog

Category: Careers in Parks

  • The summer job that lasted seven years

    Today’s blog was written by Adrian Petry, Public Historian and Visitor Services Coordinator for St. Catharines Museum & Welland Canals Centre. Adrian can occasionally be found volunteering at historical events at Bronte Creek Provincial Park, where he was a former senior Discovery staff member. When I think back to my younger entering-the-workforce self, I recognize…

  • How to become a park ranger at Ontario Parks

    Applications for the 2024 season are open! Read on to learn about how you can spend your summer with Ontario Parks. Calling all Ontario students! Do you enjoy the outdoors and have an appreciation for Ontario’s natural and cultural resources? Are you self-motivated, with a positive attitude and a desire to learn? Do you enjoy…

  • Five friends, five departments, one park

    Today’s post comes from Zuzanna, Alysa, Lyle, Jackson, and Emily: five friends who applied to Ontario Parks across the province and by a twist of fate, all got jobs at the same provincial park, 1,500 km (or 16 hours) from home! Are you interested in joining us for the 2024 summer season? Applications are now open! In…

  • Then and now: mapping and GIS

    Today’s post comes from Steven Groulx, a GIS Database Technician in Algonquin Provincial Park. Today is GIS Day, and to celebrate we thought we would look back and see how far GIS has come over the years. From mapping, to tracking, to data collection, GIS staff do it all!

  • Weekend warriors: northern edition

    This blog comes from park besties: Alysa Cortes and Zuzanna Radecki! They’re back for another recap of their weekend adventures living and working at a different provincial park. This season, we moved 17 hours from home and 14 hours from our previous park, Killbear Provincial Park, to work at the world-renowned paddling paradise: Quetico Provincial…

  • It's Take Me Outside Day!

    Written by Discovery Program Project Coordinator Jessica Stillman. Teachers, did you know you can help your students be more engaged and enthusiastic in all areas of their learning by taking them outside? Studies show that students who experience nature as part of the educational process score higher on tests in reading, writing, and math and…

  • What goes into closing a park for the winter?

    While 32 provincial parks remain open for the winter, the rest hibernate until spring. But closing a park isn’t as simple as just locking the gates. Our staff put a lot of elbow grease into prepping each park for the winter. Here are just a few of the tasks we do each fall:

  • Keeping tabs on turtles in Southeastern Ontario

    Over the years, Ontario Parks staff have created many blogs about turtles, their significance to the Ontario landscape, and why it’s important that we protect and support them. You may even be familiar with our Turtle Protection Project! With seven of the eight turtle species found in Ontario being species-at-risk under the Ontario Endangered Species Act,…

  • There and back again: a Quetico tale

    Today’s blog comes from Quetico Provincial Park Canoe Route Technician Gavin Morito-Karn. In 2019, I spent my summer paddling across a large chunk of the vastness of one of Canada’s waterways. Brigitte Champaigne-Klassen (also a past member of Quetico’s staff) and I travelled from Cochrane, Alberta (just west of Calgary) to Nym Lake on the border…

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