Ontario Junior Ranger program

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario Junior Ranger program

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

      Other form(s) of name

      • Ontario Ranger Program

      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1944-2012

      History

      The program was initially administered by the Department of Lands and Forests, which became the Ministry of Natural Resources, through it's Division of Operations and Personnel. which later became Personel Branch and later the Human Resources Branch. The title of the program was changed in the early 1990's to The Ontario Ranger Program - dropping the Junior.

      The program was cancelled in 2012, and replaced with a day program -The Ontario Stewardship Youth Program - employing only youth who lived near the parks or work location

      Places

      Legal status

      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Ontario Junior Ranger Program was a program that employed 16 and 17 year old high school students during the summer months to undertake outdoor actiivities such as planting seedlings, cleaning parks, building trails wildlife surveys and fish stocking. Participants also engaged in recreational activities realted to their work and the environment - canoe trips. campfires, and intercamp field days - displaying their fitness and work skills. This was an eight week program that allowed young people from all over Ontario, often from urban areas to develop skills and gain work experience, often in remote locations.

      Address

      Department of Lands and Forests. Ontario Ministry of Natural resources

      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Dept. of Lands and Forests (1920-1972)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA52

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Dept. of Lands and Forests controls Ontario Junior Ranger program

      Dates of relationship

      1944-1952

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources (1972-2014)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA17

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources controls Ontario Junior Ranger program

      Dates of relationship

      1972-1974

      Description of relationship

      Access points area

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      CA2468

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

      Status

      Preliminary

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

      Language(s)

        Script(s)

          Sources

          Kwic Index to Services, Toronto Star, Oct, 25, 2013, Chang,org, NUPGE.ca Change.org, Hap Wilson.org

          Maintenance notes

          Archivist(s):
          Doiron