On route to an old-growth Eastern hemlock stand, we’re waylaid by a hiker keen to share her sighting of a Lady’s Slipper, a prolific orchid with a pink, pouch-shaped flower that she has confused with the rare Hooker’s orchid the park wants citizen scientists to keep an eye out for. We pause to admire ruby red teaberries and bunchberries with tiny but showy white “flowers” made up of four oval bracts, rub sweetfern to inhale its namesake scent, and gently finger the ragged lung lichen that proliferate on tree trunks.

The Sault Ste. Marie Canal National Historic Site has a new, accessible visitor center and interpretive exhibit.

High water levels and flows have forced Parks Canada to expand the partial closure of navigation at the Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site.

Jasper National Park will celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day with a day of festivities in Robson Park across the street from the library.