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New Look

We've changed our look but we'll be changing again. The one we're aiming at will be more like this:
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Temporary French

Until we have some francophone contributors here is a Google tool that should be better than nothing.

RSS Gatineau Park News

  • Special Activities at the Mackenzie King Estate this Labour Day Weekend
    From the NCC The NCC offers many special activities for the Labour Day week-end.  Join us for a concert, corn roast, a contest and much more! For info click here.
  • Last Weekend to Enjoy Some Gatineau Park Summer Activities
    From the NCC: Last Weekend to Enjoy Many of the NCC’S Summer Activities NCC Beaches – Open Until Monday, September 6, 2010 40th Season of Alcatel-Lucent Sundays Bikedays – end Sunday, September
  • Gatineau Park Summer Student Impressed
    Here's a post from a summer employee of the NCC who was impressed with the organization they worked for this past season.
  • NCC Saturday Short Loops Begin this Weekend
    The National Capital Commission wishes to inform the public that sections of the Gatineau Parkway will be closed to motorized traffic every Saturday from September 4 to October 23, 2010. Outdoor enthu
  • Two Nice Posts
    The blog Willow House Chronicles has posted two Gatineau Park related pieces; one entitled Champlain Lookout Trail and the other The Mackenzie King Estate. Each include a nice mix of text and pictures
  • Wolf Trail Profiled in Ottawa Citizen
    Dave Brown, Publisher of Ottawa Outdoors Magazine has written an article in Today's Citizen describing the Wolf Trail near Meech Lake and encouraging Ottawans to get out into Gatineau Park instea
  • Species at Risk
    The Ottawa Citizen included this little nugget that it extracted from the NCC Environmental Report Gatineau Park has 10 new additions to its species-at-risk list, bringing the total of species at risk
  • Rock Climbing Update
    Last night the Ottawa Gatineau Climbers' Coalition held a meeting to allow their membership to react to the latest NCC plan for climbing in Gatineau Park. The NCC is offering a restricted number
  • Gatineau Park interpretive programs at Lac Philippe
    I'm a little late off the mark with this but there are almost nightly interpretive sessions at Lac Philippe going on during August. You can see the calendar of what's on here for events both
  • Bear Sighting
    Cindy reports a bear sighting near Relais Plein Air and trail 5. That's the area below and to the east of Pink Lake.

Beta2

GuideGatineau is now in "Beta2” which means:
• the better look & feel that we're working on is taking too long so we jumped to an interim new look & feel
• we’re looking for French contributors
• there will be a few technology bumps
You can help. Using the site and encouraging your friends to check it out will show us how to improve.
If you care to you can join the conversation on what directions GuideGatineau ought to take technically or thematically.