- A young person from anywhere in Ontario has an opportunity for one of 278 jobs.
What's the Difference?
Ontario Ranger Program
- Open to any youth, aged 17, from any urban or rural community in Ontario.
- Eight weeks away from home.
- Word, educational, and recreational components. Clearing trails, planting trees, maintaining canoe routes, fish and wildlife projects, collaborating with aboriginal groups, working in the kitchen, and camp maintenance.
- Learn independent living by doing one's own laundry, household chores, cooking and kitchen help.
- Opportunity to work in large teams to undertake big projects.
- IF A JOB IS 90 kms OR MORE FROM THE COMMUNITY: Leave for the job site on Monday morning, set up camp for the work week, travel back to the base camp on Friday. This results in a full work week with minimal travel time.
- GETTING TO WORK: Already on the job. Wake up, do your chores, eat a full breakfast and report for duty.
- Build relationships and networks with dozens of peers from across the province.
- Live and work with 20 peers from unique cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.
- Technology-free environment.
- Live in a wilderness environment.
- At night cook s'mores over a campfire with your team mates.
- Once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Stewardship Youth Program
Stewardship Youth Program
- A young person with the means to commute to the work site each day competes for one of four available jobs.
- Excludes youth from large urban centres.
- Day job.
- Trail maintenance and other fish and wildlife projects. Work cannot be done on the same scale as the Ontario Ranger Program.
- No life skills learned.
- Work in small groups on small community-based projects.
- IF A JOB SITE IS 90 kms OR MORE FROM THE COMMUNITY: 50% of each day is spent traveling to and from the work site (depending on traffic conditions).
- GETTING TO WORK: Commute to and from work every day.
- Builds relationships and networks with three working peers.
- Remain in your home community.
- Access to internet, cellphones, TV, and all forms of social media.
- Regular community environment.
- Hang out at the mall or grab a burger at the drive-thru.
- A summer job.