Georgian Bay Islands National Park Unveils New Management Plan
The management plan for Georgian Bay Islands National Park, including Beausoleil Island National Historic Site, has been released.
- By NPT Staff - December 29th, 2022 8:14am
Georgian Bay Islands National Park
Parks Canada's Most Memorable Public Toilets Of 2022
Call them what you like — outhouses, pit privies, vault toilets, washrooms, bathrooms or just plain old public toilets. When you spend the year touring Parks Canada's national historic sites and national parks for stories — like I just did — you'll need to use the facilities on a regular basis. And by facilities, I don't mean the "facilitrees" when you're desparate and have to go in the great outdoors, and I don't mean the cush indoor ones with flush toilets found in heated/air-conditioned visitor centers. I mean the standalone ones that aren't always as clean and fragant as you'd like and where you consider yourself lucky if there's a good supply of toilet paper and sanitizer.
- By Jennifer Bain - December 27th, 2022 3:55pm
An Island Getaway To Canada's Smallest National Park
Oh, the stories that Beausoleil Island can tell to those willing to listen. Some from the thousands of years that Indigenous Peoples gathered, traded, farmed and lived on what the Anishinaabeg called Baamidoonegog, “rocky place floating about the mouth of a river.” Others that begin in 1929 when Ottawa answered calls to protect the Ontario island from cottage country development and it formed the core of Georgian Bay Islands National Park.
- By Jennifer Bain - October 18th, 2022 7:48am
Georgian Bay Islands Sets Draft Strategies For Next Decade
It’s something that every national park struggles with — balancing the need to protect its natural and cultural resources with the mandate to showcase itself and attract a good array of people but not too many.
- By Jennifer Bain - March 28th, 2022 6:11am
Parks Canada Asks People To Help Monarchs Rest And Recover
As monarch butterflies begin their annual spring migration from Mexico to southern Canada, they face what’s called “landscape fragmentation.” This species-at-risk needs specific habitat for food and shelter but the landscape is being lost or broken up by things like urban development, roads and industrial agriculture.
- By Jennifer Bain - March 26th, 2022 2:45am
Georgian Bay Islands Seeks Input On Draft Management Plan
Parks Canada is having a virtual open house March 23 to hear from Canadians and Indigenous groups as it seeks input on a new draft management plan for Georgian Bay Islands National Park including Beausoleil Island National Historic Site.
- By NPT Staff - March 11th, 2022 6:17am
National Parks Quiz And Trivia #25 – Oh Canada
Now that the National Parks Traveler has expanded its coverage to include our northern neighbor, here’s the latest quiz and trivia piece. How much do you really know about Canada’s national parks? Take the quiz and learn a little bit, while you are at it.
- By Rebecca Latson - February 26th, 2021 3:45am
Canada’s Smallest National Park Fights Invasive Phragmites Along Shorelines
Canada’s smallest national park is gearing up for the second active season of a fight against an aggressive reed that has been called the country’s worst invasive plant.
- By Jennifer Bain - February 19th, 2021 2:30am
Turtles Get Help From Thousand Islands National Park
Every May and June, some of the turtles of Thousand Islands National Park make their way to sandy road and highway shoulders to lay their eggs. Raccoons are quick to find and devour the eggs. Some remain safely hidden until September, but then scores of vulnerable hatchlings are killed crossing the road.
- By Jennifer Bain - February 13th, 2021 10:01am
Unique Comfort Camping Options A Hit With The Parks Canada Crowd
Little did I know when my family slept in an oTENTik in Georgian Bay Islands National Park in 2016, and when I did a solo night in a MicrOcube in Riding Mountain National Park in 2017, that we were part of a quiet camping revolution.
- By Jennifer Bain - February 9th, 2021 2:00am
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