Killarney

Location: Killarney Ontario Ranger Camp is situated within the MNR Sudbury District. The camp is located in beautiful Killarney Provincial Park near Killarney and Sudbury.

Gender: Female

Capacity: 23

About the camp: Killarney Ontario Ranger Camp consists of over seven buildings that house 24 rangers, 6 staff and 2 cooks. Many of the staff, who began as rangers themselves have been returning summer after summer for over 10 years now. The camp is surrounded largely by a beautiful granite and treed landscape and numerous pristine lakes.

Training and education: Killarney Rangers receive training and education in emergency first aid, Health and Safety, WHMIS, Workplace Discrimination and Harassment Prevention, wilderness survival, black bear awareness, and tool safety.

Other organized learning opportunities are ecological sustainability for youth, forest fire management and control demonstration and tour of the fire aviation base, a conservation canine demonstration, a trip to Science North and rappelling.

Work Projects: Killarney Rangers work in Killarney, Chutes, Spanish River and Halfway Lake Provincial Parks brushing hiking and portage trails, clearing campsites and general park maintenance. Much of this work involves day or multi-day canoe trips to interior locations of the parks.

Other projects may include gravel pit restoration by using vegetation to prevent erosion, cleaning up illegal dump sites, cleaning fish ponds at Blue Jay Creek Fish Culture Station or fin clipping Lake Trout for introduction into rehabilitated streams lakes and rivers.

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 organized recreational activities such as sporting games, movie nights, theme dinners, talent nights, shopping trips and visiting local tourist attractions. There is also time for unscheduled recreation such as swimming, fishing, campfires and more.

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