Friends of Wabakimi Fundraising Projects
This Wabakimi Provincial Park proposed project will include creating a small parking area at one of the few road access locations for the Park.
Check out the following link for the WPP Detailed Proposal.
Our goal is to raise $10,000 towards the cost of this project.
We are grateful for your donation and support for the Friends of Wabakimi and Wabakimi Provincial Park.
Check out the following link for the WPP Detailed Proposal.
Our goal is to raise $10,000 towards the cost of this project.
We are grateful for your donation and support for the Friends of Wabakimi and Wabakimi Provincial Park.
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The KZ Lodge is an alternative high school program supporting Indigenous youth. Many of these young people come to Thunder Bay from remote communities for their high school education. FOW Endowment & Legacy Fund is for long-term support. Donations and planned giving arrangements are welcome.
If you wish to make a donation using a cheque, please email [email protected] for more details. 
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FOW/Wabakimi Provincial Park Projects 2020- 2025 2024-25: This project was to clean up the Shultz’s Trail, a popular entry point just off the Via Rail line and Onamakawash Lake (pronounced Oh-na-maw-kay'-wush). A complex of three abandoned structures with debris, broken glass, and metal fragments along this portage was a visual eyesore and a hazard to paddlers beginning or ending a canoe trip. $9100 was raised for mulitple Otter float plane trips to transport the debris from the location. See the following webinar highlighting this project.
2023-24: Legacy Debris Removal/Park Ranger Added Capacity. $11,280 was raised to fund a large Otter float plane trip with its large capacity to haul debris out of Shabuskwia Lake and added 36 ranger working days to their spring and summer 2024 operating season for portage maintenance after the 2023 fires. 2o22-23: We raised $9372 to purchase eleven new bird song meters for use by the Park's biologist and rangers, in support of the Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas project. Those meters went into the field in the summer 2023 and thankfully survived the fires. Here's a detailed report of how those are used. 2021-22: We raised $8,413 for our joint project with W.P.P. to install the new Armstrong kiosk. This will enhance the backcountry experience for visitors to Wabakimi Provincial Park and includes the "Wabakimi" painting and art print produced by Kevin Belmore. 2020-21: We raised $7,917 for the debris removal project completed in the summer 2021! Here's a Detailed Report. |