Friends are welcome if space permits. Any young naturalist 14 years of age and under must be accompanied by an adult.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the scheduled start time to ensure enough time for waiver signing and passport stamping. Remember to bring your passport—fill it out in advance at home to make it easier for the Leaders to stamp it.
All activities will take place rain or shine unless otherwise noted. Please consider the weather and the activity, and wear appropriate clothing and shoes, including sunhats and sunscreen. Bring snacks and water.
Other items that might be useful are: magnifying glass, binoculars, sketch book and pencil, camera and field guides.
Starting times are firm out of courtesy to the Leader of the day. We regret that we cannot wait for those who are late.
Please stay with the Leader and let him/her know if you are leaving early.
YNC Stanley Park meets at the Lost Lagoon Nature House on the first weekend of every month, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
CONTACT LEADERS FOR INFORMATION ON UP-COMING EXPLORER DAYS.
Take #19 bus to Lost Lagoon stop
UPCOMING EVENTS:
EVENT: HINTERLAND WHO'S WHO!
DATE: Saturday, July 3; 2 pm to 4 pm
LOCATION: Stanley Park Nature House
I am pleased to announce that at this meeting Jody and Louis from Hinterland Who’s Who will be providing a fun filled afternoon of activities with the YNC! Due to their travel schedule, the meeting will take place from 2 pm to 4 pm, meeting as usual at the Stanley Park Nature House. Please find below some background information about Jody and Louie and Hinterland Who’s Who.
For this event, please register at 604-718-6522.
Jody Gienow:
Jody Gienow’s passion is wildlife and educating others to appreciate and protect it. Involved for several years with the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s wildlife education presentations, she jumped at the chance to appear in the Hinterland Who's WhoTube webisodes to help young viewers learn about and develop a positive attitude toward wildlife.
Jody is the founder of the Muskoka Wildlife Centre, which specializes in caring for native wildlife that cannot survive in the wild. She is skilled at working with children and was responsible for establishing and overseeing the first residential children's camp in an Ontario CAZA-accredited zoo. Jody also has taken live animal emissaries to meet with thousands of students, routinely appeared on television nation-wide, and helped to create wildlife documentary films ... all in an effort to help develop an appreciation for our native wildlife in others.
Louis-René Sénéchal:
When Sénéchal isn’t hosting and narrating the Hinterland Who’s Who (HWW) television vignettes, he works for the National Capital Commission as interpretation, information and marketing manager in Gatineau Park. He also spent more than 14 years at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.
“I’m very lucky to be working in an environment where the audience is already interested in wildlife,” says Sénéchal. He particularly enjoys the variety of work he does with HWW. “I get to gain some great experiences while educating people about nature.”
Hinterland Who’s Who
What it means to be Canadian has often been demonstrated through people’s attachment to wildlife and wilderness. This is most evident in the iconic role that wildlife plays in Canadian currency, the popularity of wildlife art, and the billions of dollars that are spent annually on wildlife-related activities in Canada.
This connection to wildlife was introduced to many Canadians through the popular Hinterland Who’s Who television announcements, or vignettes. First created in the early 1960s, Hinterland Who’s Who made bold use of a relatively new medium — black and white television — to reach the Canadian general public. The vignettes, produced by the Canadian Wildlife Service, brought native wildlife into living rooms using excellent film footage and simple narration. They became, and remain, an enduring part of Canadian culture.