Thanks to Adventure Guide, Chris Mortimer who snapped this picture of a heron dining on a perch among the sedge grasses at the Edge of Algonquin Park during Advanced Wilderness First Aid last weekend.
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At 10 pm tonight, Wendy gave birth to a healthy baby boy! Griffin tips the scales at nine lbs one once and shares his birthday with his dad, Chris. Mother and child are both healthy.The whole family at the Edge are delighted with the news and share our best wishes as mom, dad [...]
We’ve got a nice group of 14 here this weekend studying Wilderness Medicine - Advanced Wilderness First Aid with Wilderness Medical Associates. A couple of our staff are participating in the 40 hour intensive course designed for people who venture into the backcountry overnight and find themselves many hours or days from medical treatment [...]
With summer giving us a chance to sleep in the great outdoors, the Most Priceless National Park contest (which surveyed over 2006 Canadians identified Alberta’s Banff first (19%), followed closely by Ontario’s Algonquin Park second (15%) and Alberta’s Jasper third (7%). Interestingly, Algonquin Park is a provincial park - though its beauty and popularity are [...]
We set up the camera to capture early morning sights and sounds at the Edge during staff training about a week ago and we put it all together in a short two minute movie. Have a gander at this video that includes new cabin interiors.
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See Video of Summer: Women’s Retreat - Click Here.
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Our staff was taken to the Edge this weekend with a pre-season team building event! We kicked Friday off with an inspiring circle at Points North to orient ourselves to the directions of the Edge: Dreamtime, Adventure, Nature, Tribal Community and Creativity. The energy in the room was fresh and exciting as we [...]
Northern Edge Algonquin celebrates with 7 Special Algonquin Park Canoe Trips
Canadians have an opportunity to experience first hand the seven wonders of Algonquin Park, accessible only by canoe, and discover why the canoe was selected as one of Canada’s Seven Wonders in a national contest this week.
It’s fantastic that the canoe is one [...]
