Wednesday Afternoon and Evening, August 20, 2003
All Teachers' Tour participants were lodged at the Canadian Ecology Centre campground. The Centre is located in Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park, in the middle of 2,500 hectares of Northeastern Ontario. Samuel de Champlain Park -- named for the 17th-century explorer -- is on the Mattawa River, approximately 60 kilometers east of North Bay. It is full of the legends of the Nipissing and Algonquin people who have inhabited the area for thousands of years, and of the voyageurs who opened the forests to new possibilities.
The Canadian
Ecology Centre is a center for ecological learning and eco-tourism, and offers everything from highly specialized courses in
Global Positioning Systems to a wide range of outdoor activities.
Teachers registered throughout the day Wednesday. They had the afternoon to tour the grounds and the option to carve canoe paddles. In the evening, the tour's orientation was conducted. Teachers were welcomed by Bob Legg, president of the Temperate Forest Foundation as well as George Bruemmer, General Manager of Forest Research Partnership, Bob Rivard, Bill Steer, Tracy Snarr, and John Pineau.
After orientation, teachers were treated to dinner and a job fair, where teachers will get an opportunity to talk about forestry with foresters, planners, biologists, technicians, field contractors, and others from government, industry, and the private sector.
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