Peter Moon - Canadian Rangers

A Junior Canadian Ranger from the small Cree community of Peawanuck near the Hudson Bay coast has won a prestigious youth award for her leadership and commitment to preserving her Indigenous culture.

“I think what she has done is great,” said Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler of Nishnawbe Aski Nation {NAN} as he presented the award to 17-year-old Nova Gull. “I think it’s important that we encourage our youth in preserving their culture. She has done that and I can see that she has benefited from the Junior Canadian Ranger program.”

Learning to drive an all-terrain vehicle safely was one of the most important training sites as well as one of the most popular at Camp Loon, the annual advanced training camp for selected Junior Canadian Rangers from across the Far North of Ontario

“It is one of the most popular training stands at the camp,” said Sergeant Kevin Meikle, the Canadian Army instructor in charge of the site. “A lot of the children have never ridden an ATV but by the end of the day they’re very competent on them. So there’s always a lot of smiles.”

Canadian Rangers are distributing free life jackets in six First Nation communities in Northern Ontario to launch a national initiative to reduce the high rate of drownings in the Canadian North.

Learning to drive an all-terrain vehicle safely is done at one of the most important training sites as well as one of the most popular at Camp Loon, an advanced training camp for Junior Canadian Rangers.

The camp, held in the bush north of Geraldton, provides eight days of training for the Junior Rangers, who are members of a national Canadian Army program for boys and girl aged 12 to 18 in remote and isolated communities in the North

In an unprecedented move, the Canadian Army has sent Canadian Rangers to a small, isolated First Nation in Northern Ontario to provide help in a suicide crisis.

“This is an immediate response to a crisis situation,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Richardson, commanding officer of the 3rd Canadian Ranger Patrol Group, which commands the Canadian Rangers, who are part-time reservists, in the Far North of Ontario.