Parks Blog

Category: Cultural Heritage

  • How to book a virtual school program

    Our virtual school programs bring different aspects of Ontario’s natural and cultural heritage into your classroom through stories of the people and landscapes our provincial parks aim to protect. Each program engages your students through storytelling, activities, discussion, and personal experiences.

  • Destination Temagami

    Surrounded by shining waters and cloaked in towering pines, Finlayson Point Provincial Park lies just south of the Village of Temagami. Sharing a shoreline with the Lake Temagami Skyline Preserve, a protected ring of pine forest that surrounds the lake, Finlayson Point provides visitors with access to Temagami — a treasured part of Ontario that…

  • George Bonga: the life of a voyageur

    Today’s post comes from our Discovery Specialist (and history buff), Dave Sproule. Header image source: Minnesota Historical Society.  Over 200 years ago, George Bonga paddled fur trade routes throughout the Great Lakes region. He also acted as a canoe guide, a translator, and eventually a trader with his own trading posts. In honour of Black History…

  • Virtual programs: nature gone digital!

    Today’s blog comes from Jessica Stillman, Discovery program project coordinator. (She’s pretty much famous among Ontario’s elementary students tuning in for virtual field trips!) Virtual field trips are AWESOME! No forms, school buses, or headcounts! Once you log in, our knowledgeable and engaging Discovery staff do the rest.

  • Where can a paddle take you?

    In today’s post, Rondeau Provincial Park‘s Chief Park Naturalist Jess Matthews takes us back in time… There may be a time when you used your paddle to get through white caps. At other times, it leisurely pulled you over still wetlands. They are a lifeline. Solid, reliable; something that won’t break down on whatever journey…

  • A look back on Ontario Parks’ outhouses

    We called on Ontario Parks Architect Matthew Harvey to provide some insight on outhouses…the good, the bad, and the stinky! In the course of my 30 year architectural career with Ontario Parks, I occasionally get asked what I do for a living. I proudly reply “Why, I design outhouses!” If that person doesn’t excuse themselves,…

  • 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!

  • The Gales of November: remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald

    Today’s post supplied by Natural Heritage Education Specialist Dave Sproule. Forty-eight years ago, the huge freighter Edmund Fitzgerald was wrecked on Lake Superior. This is the story.

  • Shipwrecks of Lake Superior

    Today’s post comes to us from Discovery Program Specialist (and history buff) Dave Sproule. Thousands of boats, ships and canoes have been claimed by Lake Superior over the centuries. The Edmund Fitzgerald is simply the most famous and one of the most recent.

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