Dividing Lake

Location: Dividing Lake Camp is a bilingual camp situated on the shores of beautiful lake located approximately 35 kilometers south of Gogama.

Gender: Female

Capacity: 23

Work Projects: Rangers work in both Kettle Lakes and Halfway Lake Provincial Parks brushing park trails, posting signs, maintaining campsites and brushing portage trails. Much of this work involved multi-day canoe trips. Rangers also work on fish and wildlife projects such as moving rocks into streams to enhance spawning beds or shoreline cleanup.

Dividing Lake Rangers complete work projects with a number of community partners such as surveying lakes with the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters for the "Invasive Species Watch", working on wetland restoration involving transplanting cattails along pond edges with local land owners and trail maintenance with Mattagami Conservation Authority.

Training and Education: Dividing Lake Rangers receive training and education in emergency first aid, Health and Safety, WHMIS, Workplace Discrimination and Harassment Prevention (WDHP), bear awareness, flat water canoe skills, ecological sustainability, Native issues awareness, and safe tool handling.

Other organized educational activities include touring local attractions and resource industries in the Timmins and Sudbury area. Some examples are: Sudbury Fire Management Centre; Laurentian University, Science North, Mattagmai First Nation Reserve and Milson Tree Nursery.

Recreation: Relationship building is one of the best loved attributes of the Ontario Ranger Program. At Dividing Lake, rangers will find a number of scheduled recreational activities such as volleyball, theme dinners, movie nights in town or at camp, talent shows, shopping, local tourist attractions and Jamboree just to name a few. There is also time for unscheduled recreation such as the swimming, fishing, sports, games and more.

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