Named after the distinguished Canadian naturalist, film-maker and canoeist, the Bill Mason Centre consists of 31 hectares of forests, meadows, and Class 1 wetlands, as well as indoor and outdoor classrooms. The Bill Mason Centre’s extensive boardwalks and trails are wheelchair-accessible and provide links between the different ecosystems of this extraordinarily diverse site and its sheltered outdoor classroom teaching areas. Ontario curriculum-linked Outdoor Education programs include natural science, Canadian history, outdoor skill building, and team building programs tailored to meet a group’s needs. When the Bill Mason Centre opened in 1988 as part of the Carleton Board of Education, it was described as an “…environmental immersion centre [where] the individual learns to explore, to discover, and to constructively think for him or herself…” Now, through the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, the Bill Mason Centre offers year-round, safe, progressive, outdoor learning experiences for students of all ages.
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Bill Mason Centre
3088 Dunrobin Road
Dunrobin, Ontario K0A 1T0
Phone: 613-833-2080 / 613-832-2773
outdooredcentres@ocdsb.ca
Centre website
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Top right image republished by permission of J. Oblak |
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