Mink Lake

Location: The camp is located in MNR's Fort Frances District, and is physically located on a scenic lake near the expansive Quetico Provincial Park. The park has one million acres of wilderness and canoe routes.

Gender: Female Capacity: 22

Training and Education: Mink Lake Rangers receive training in emergency first aid, Health and Safety, WHMIS, flatwater canoe skills, wilderness camping, bear awareness, and using hand tools.

Other organized educational demonstrations and tours might include an MNR fire demonstration or touring the fire base headquarters, visiting the Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung (Place of Long Rapids) Historical Centre, touring a canoe or paddle manufacturing company, touring Steep Rock or Panorama Mine, visiting Ouimet Canyon and the Terry Fox Monument, Geocaching, an edible plant tour and attending the Old Fort William Native Festival.

Work Projects: Mink Lake Rangers work in Quetico Provincial Park to provide rehabilitation and maintenance of interior wilderness canoe routes, campsites, shorelines, rock faces, lake clean-up and provide GPS mapping and digital photos of remote campsite locations. This type of work requires multi-day, and sometimes fly-in, canoe trips. Rangers also work with park visitor services on Natural Heritage Education projects.
Outside of the park, Mink Lake Rangers work on a number of projects with the ministry and local community partners such as, painting out-buildings, adopt-a-highway clean-up, assist at the Atikokan Motor-Cross selling tickets, or helping at the boat launch for the Atikokan Bass Classic.

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 fun organized activities such as beach day, secret friends, shopping trips to town, hide and go seek, movie nights, Barbeques, dinners out, picnics and theme nights.

There is also unscheduled recreation time for personal interest and things such as sports, swimming, spontaneous dance parties, campfires or just relaxing.

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