Posts Tagged with
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Committed to Outdoor Education

by Patrick Connor · February 8th 2012

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There were critics, almost 40 years ago, when Bruce County school trustees bought 320 acres between Boat Lake and Spry Lake for outdoor education.It was a different world then. Kids were always outside anyway, weren’t they? Not now, outdoor educators gathered at the site centre said Saturday. Now, they said, kids average 53 hours in [...]

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Wilderness Canoe Symposium – Feb 17-18, 2012

by Patrick Connor · January 26th 2012

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The first “Wilderness & Canoeing Symposium” was a small gathering of kindred spirits who first came together to look at each other’s slides in George Luste’s living room on Albany Ave. This was in 1986.  Space was quite limited there, so when other friends heard about this gathering & wanted to participate, space was rented [...]

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