Cedarbough

Location: 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: 23

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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