Overview

The Wabakimi Project is a not-for-profit volunteer effort to explore and document the historical and traditional canoe routes of Wabakimi Provincial Park. Since its inception in 2004, the scope of this ambitious venture has been expanded to include the canoe routes that lie on Crown lands adjacent to the park. They provide vital access to Wabakimi as well as strategic links to nearby provincial parks and the conservation reserves.

To date, 110 volunteers from across North America have collectively spent a total of 510 days on 56 trips exploring and mapping the canoe routes of this vast wilderness area. Together, they've travelled over 3,000km (1,875 miles), identified and cleaned more than 500 previously unrecorded campsites and located and measured some 548 portages whose total lengths exceeded 137,000m (150,700 yards or 27,400 rods).

In 2010, The Wabakimi Project will operate continuously for 18 weeks (127 days) from mid-May to mid-September and will involve a maximum of 54 volunteers. Applications are welcome from eligible paddlers interested in participating in this worthwhile conservancy effort.