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ONTARIO RANGERS PROGRAM
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Location: Sandbar Ontario Ranger Camp is located in Sandbar Lake Provincial Park near Ignace. The camp, which has been in operation since 1966, is set in a natural stand of red pine on the shore of Little Sandbar Lake.

Gender: Male Capacity: 22

Training and Education: Sandbar Rangers receive training in emergency first aid, Health and Safety, WHMIS, Workplace Discrimination and Harassment Prevention, flat water canoe skills, bear awareness and the use of hand tools.

Other organized educational activities may include tours to such places as Lakehead University, the Thunder Bay Fire Centre, the Thunder Bay Pulp and Paper Mill or visiting the Terry Fox Memorial. Rangers may also learn from a variety of demonstrations in tree identification and pruning, forestry operations, GPS training, mining, moose surveys or conservation enforcement.

Work Projects: Sandbar Rangers work in Sandbar, Turtle River, Pakwash, Blue Lake and Brightsand Provincial Parks brushing trails, maintaining camp sites, building boardwalks, installing docks and performing general park maintenance duties. Rangers also participate in multi-day canoe trips to interior park locations to complete work projects.

Sandbar Rangers also work on a number of other projects with the ministry and local partners. Some jobs might include installing signs for the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs and marking each sign on a GPS unit, assisting in local township events, tree planting to rehabilitate a gravel pit or assisting in research for fish and wildlife projects.

Recreation: The Ontario Ranger Programs prides itself on the friendships Rangers establish with one another while performing such meaningful work. There are a number of organized activities such as the camp fishing derby, driving range sessions and golf days, movie nights in town, at the camp or with other camps in the area, BBQ with other ranger camps, trips to Thunder Bay and the annual weekend Jamboree with all four camps in the Northwest.

Sandbar Rangers also have the opportunity to work on some personal projects such as heavy bag training and carving your own paddle. There is time for sporting activities like volleyball, basketball and swimming, or having campfires and just relaxing. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Cedarbough

Composite picture showing views of Cedarbough campLocation: This camp is located on the northerly shore of Cedarbough Lake within Ojibway Provincial Park in MNR's Sioux Lookout district. Cedarbough camp is the most northerly, of the western camps and the largest female Ontario Ranger Camp.

Gender: Female Capacity: 24

Training and Education: Cedarbough Rangers receive training in emergency first aid, Health & Safety, WHMIS, Workplace Discrimination and Harassment Prevention, bear awareness, ecological sustainability, basic orienteering, low impact camping, how to safely carry, use and store tools and flat water canoe skills.

Other organized educational activities may include demonstrations and tours such as a fire demonstration at the Dryden District Fire Centre, a Pow Wow demonstration, teaching of traditional dance and observation of a First Nations Sharing Circle. Some examples of educational tours are of Pacific Regeneration Technology Nursery, Lakehead University and Old Fort William.

Work Projects: Cedarbough Rangers work in the Ojibway and Blue Lake Provincial Parks maintaining trails, brushing roads, clearing campsites and provide interpretive work on special park days.

Rangers also work on a number of other projects with the ministry and local partners. Some jobs may include landfill site restoration, installing duck boxes, tree planting, invasive species control, stream degradation prevention, and multi-day canoe trips to clean campsites, clear portages and map the campsites and portages using Global Positioning System (GPS). Rangers also participate in the community's Blueberry Festival by helping to prepare and set up for the festival and organize children's activities.

Recreation: Relationship building is one of the best loved attributes of the Ontario Ranger Program. You will make friendships that will last a lifetime. There are a number of fun organized activities to support this social side of the program including a camping trip to Thunder Bay where Rangers visited local sites including Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, movie nights in town or at camp, Halloween night, dance parties, beach days, shopping trips, secret friends and the annual Jamboree weekend with all four ranger camps in the Northwest region. Rangers will also have unscheduled recreation time to pursue sporting activities, billiards, swimming and just relaxing.

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Mink Lake

Composite picture showing views of Mink Lake CampLocation: The camp is located in MNR's Fort Frances District, and is physically located on a scenic lake near the expansive Quetico Provincial Park. The park has one million acres of wilderness and canoe routes.

Gender: Female Capacity: 22

Training and Education: Mink Lake Rangers receive training in emergency first aid, Health and Safety, WHMIS, flatwater canoe skills, wilderness camping, bear awareness, and using hand tools.

Other organized educational demonstrations and tours might include an MNR fire demonstration or touring the fire base headquarters, visiting the Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung (Place of Long Rapids) Historical Centre, touring a canoe or paddle manufacturing company, touring Steep Rock or Panorama Mine, visiting Ouimet Canyon and the Terry Fox Monument, Geocaching, an edible plant tour and attending the Old Fort William Native Festival.

Work Projects: Mink Lake Rangers work in Quetico Provincial Park to provide rehabilitation and maintenance of interior wilderness canoe routes, campsites, shorelines, rock faces, lake clean-up and provide GPS mapping and digital photos of remote campsite locations. This type of work requires multi-day, and sometimes fly-in, canoe trips. Rangers also work with park visitor services on Natural Heritage Education projects. Outside of the park, Mink Lake Rangers work on a number of projects with the ministry and local community partners such as, painting out-buildings, adopt-a-highway clean-up, assist at the Atikokan Motor-Cross selling tickets, or helping at the boat launch for the Atikokan Bass Classic.

Recreation: Relationship building is one of the best loved attributes of the Ontario Ranger Program. Rangers will make friendships that will last a lifetime. There are a number of fun organized activities such as beach day, secret friends, shopping trips to town, hide and go seek, movie nights, Barbeques, dinners out, picnics and theme nights.

There is also unscheduled recreation time for personal interest and things such as sports, swimming, spontaneous dance parties, campfires or just relaxing. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________