Toronto Pool Sessions 2015

If there is enough interest, we will have three Saturday sessions at the D A Morrison pool, east of Woodbine Avenue and between Danforth Avenue and O’Connor Drive on Saturday afternoons, April 25th and May 2nd and 9th from 3:15 to 5 PM. This is in addition to the pool sessions in Burlington on Sundays April 11th, 18th and 25th. The pools … Read more

May long weekend – Frankin Island

Trip description: Meet at Snug Harbour on Friday May 15 and paddle to a campsite. Over the weekend we can do a circumnavigation of the Island (+/- 25 km), visit the Red Rock Lighthouse (5km crossing), or weather permitting, paddle from Winkler to Green Island and the Northern Minks (+/- 7km). If the weather is … Read more

THE ONCE AND FUTURE GREAT LAKES COUNTRY

by Sandy Richardson The Once and Future Great Lakes Country: An Ecological History By John L. Riley McGill-Queens University Press, 2013 The Once and Future Great Lakes Country is a comprehensive history of the environmental changes that have taken place in the Great Lakes region in the 11,000 years since the last ice age. It … Read more

Squallowing

Cleaning up the Bay White Squall, along with key community partners has been involved in campsite rehabilitation and installation of wilderness thunderboxes on the crown is-lands of Georgian Bay in the Parry Sound region for over 10 years. As in 2013, we had to partly shift focus to the southwest coasts of Franklin Island as … Read more

Membership renewal

RENEWAL CAN NOW BE DONE ON LINE!  If you have not yet done so, now is the time to re-new your GLSKA membership for another year or two. The early bird special saves you $5 on a single or family membership (your renewal must be received on or before 31 December of this year). The … Read more