Ontario Junior Ranger program

• Ontario Ranger Program

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

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.

Department of Lands and Forests. Ontario Ministry of Natural resources

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

2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

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

Archivist(s):
Doiron