Officers: CAMERON CLARK* (Chair) MARJORIE ROGERS* (Vice-Chair) CHRIS DOBSON* (Treasurer) JIM DOUGLAS* (Secretary) FRASER REEVES* (Past Chair)   Trustees: NICK BOISMENUE KEN BUCHAN RICK CLENDINNING COLIN COOLICAN PETER DALGLISH GRANT GORDON MARYKAY KELLEY RICHARD L. KELLEY* BECKY MASON T. IAN McLEOD* PATRICK REID* NORM RICHARDS KEITH ROBINSON TIM SIM* ROGER SUFFLING, PH.D. R. LEE WOODS   Trustees Emeriti: JAMIE BENIDICKSON DANIEL DAMOV R.W. DODDS DAVE ELDER A. GEORGE FELLS MATTHEW GAASENBEEK JOHN HODGSON F.B. HUBACHEK JR. CHARLES A. KELLY DR. GERALD KILLAN CLIFFORD C. LAX, Q.C. WILLIAM "SARGE" SARGANT TANNY WELLS   * Members of the Executive Committee

Trustees

(Not all Trustees are represented below. The complete list of current trustees appears in the box at right).

Jamie Benidickson (BA, Trent; LL.B., Toronto; LL.M., Harvard) is associate professor and former Vice Dean at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, where he teaches in the fields of public and administrative law and environmental law. He has published essays on recreational canoe travel, forest management, and water law in addition to several books including Essentials of Environmental Law, Idleness, Water and a Canoe and The Temagami Experience: Receration, Resources and Aboriginal Rights in the Northern Ontario Wilderness. He served as president of the Canadian Canoe Museum from 1990-1994.

Ken Buchan studies the drift of continents in ancient times at the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa. His work has taken him to many parts of the Canadian Shield and the Canadian Appalachians. After graduating from the University of Toronto with a PhD in Geophysics, he taught for a couple of years in the Department of Physics at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's. Ken currently chairs the Geophysics Division of the Geological Association of Canada. He also serves on the board of Ottawa Valley Chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, specializing in park management planning issues and in the Algonquin to Adirondacks conservation initiative. Ken has travelled extensively by canoe in the Barrenlands of northern Canada, through the boreal forests of Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, as well as in more southerly regions of Canada. He has a special interest in the wild country of northwestern Ontario and eastern Manitoba and has paddled with his family over many of the wilderness waterways that stretch from Quetico to Hudson Bay and Lake Winnipeg.

Peter Dalglish is the owner and president of Ridpath's Ltd a furniture store in Toronto. He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design and a recipient of the French Govenor's award for Fine Art. He has been active on numerous Boards in Canada. Peter acquired his passion for the Canadian wilderness growing up with a cottage in Algonquin Park. He is a keen canoe tripper, camper and lover of all things wild. Above all, Peter is passionate about trees and for the last thirty years has diligently planted thousands of them. He is currently Chairman of the Dalglish Foundation in Toronto.

David Elder is a retired Ontario Government civil servant who lives in Atikokan. Dave began his career with the Ministry of Natural Resources in 1965 in Geraldton, specializing in Parks and Land Management. In 1975, he transferred to the newly created Atikokan District and began his association with Quetico Park. As Parks Supervisor and Park Superintendant, Mr. Elder co-authored the first Quetico Provincial Park Master Plan. For the next 15 years, Mr. Elder oversaw the implementation of the Master Plan for the Park. Mr. Elder is active in the Atikokan community, Chairing the Board of Directors for the Atikokan Economic Development Corporation and serving on several other committees, including Downtown Renewal, Waterfront Development, Waste Disposal Site Relocation and the Atikokan Eco-Home and Energy Centre. Mr. Elder is an avid birdwatcher and has authored a book on the birds of Quetico Park and a birder's guide to the Rainy River area. Mr. Elder seeks out and refinishes old oak furniture, and is a taxidermist, angler and hunter.

Richard L. Kelley, a Minnesotan, is Vice-President & General Manger for Unipac Corp of Aurora, Canada. He attended the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul Minnesota where he played hockey for the “Tommies” while pursuing a degree in Marketing Management. He enjoys golf, tennis, water and snow skiing and coaching his daughter’s soccer teams. He is a life long canoe tripper who, along with his son Ryan, make an annual trip to the Quetico. Although his professional life takes him to all corners of the world, a map, hanging in his home office, with many pins showing various places he has visited, is not of the world but of the BWCA and the Quetico.

Gerald Killan has served as the Principal of King's College, The University of Western Ontario since 1992 and is an expert on the history of the Ontario Provincial Parks System. He has taught history at King's since 1973 and studied history at the University of Toronto and McMaster University. He has published widely on Ontario History and his books include: Preserving Ontario's Heritage: A History of the Ontario Historical Society (1976); David Boyle: From Artisan to Archaeologist (1983); and Protected Places: A History of Ontario's Provincial Parks System (1993). Dr. Killan has served on numerous public and charitable organizations' boards, including the Ontario Historical Society, the Champlain Society, the Provincial Parks Advisory Council, the City of London Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee, the Minister of Culture and Communications' Advisory Committee on the Land Registry Office Records for Ontario, and is the past Chair of the Conservation Review Board. Dr. Killan was recently appointed to the Ontario Parks Board.

Becky Mason: (Web page: http://www.wilds.mb.ca/redcanoe/). Put simply, I am a professional canoe instructor, visual artist and occasional speaker and writer. I find that each of these four facets nourishes my creative soul and continues to inspire me to explore new and exciting avenues. On virtually every clement day from April to September, I can be found teaching my Classic Solo Canoe courses on Meech Lake in Quebec. In the fall, Reid my husband and I always manage to get in some wonderful wilderness river trips until freeze-up. Then I hang up my paddle and during the winder I paint my memories and experiences of these trips. Throughout the year and when time permits, I enjoy connecting with the public by talking about my life as a canoeist and visual artist. These include invitations to do workshops, demonstrations, slide shows and articles as well as dealing with various environmental issues, art exhibitions and running my canoeing course business. Amongst other things, I am currently promoting my new Classic Solo Canoeing video, completed in 2000.

Ian McLeod is a past Chair of The Quetico Foundation. He joined Sedgwick Noble Lowndes in 1966, becoming a senior vice-president before leaving the firm in 1999. Mr. McLeod currently has his own consulting and communications business. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and is past president of the Canadian Pension and Benefits Conference. Mr. McLeod recently completed a trip down the Burnside River to the Arctic.

Fraser Reeves studied life sciences at Queen's University and obtained his Masters in Business Administration from York University. He has worked at Xerox since 1986, most currently as a corporate account finance manager. In the summers of 1978-1985, Mr. Reeves worked as a Junior Ranger Camp Foreman with the Ministry of Natural Resources in Kenora. An avid athlete, Mr. Reeves enjoys skiing, tennis, golf, hockey and squash and has built two cedar-canvas canoes and a log cabin. He serves as Chairman of the Foundation's Summer Student Research Program Coommittee.

Norm Richards, Cobourg, Ontario, is the President of Realty Resources, a company which provides real estate investment and property management services. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto, B.A., Geography, and Michigan State University, M.Sc., Recreation and Tourism Resources. From 1981 until 1998, Norm Richards served as Managing Director, Ontario Provincial Parks, Ministry of Natural Resources. The period included a substantial increase in the number of Provincial Parks and other significant initiatives such as the campground reservation system, several Canadian Heritage River designations, establishment of a new operating agency and visual identity for Ontario Parks and cooperative partnerships with private businesses and nonprofit organizations. He has had a long involvement with the Y.M.C.A. and serves as a Board Member of not-for-profit housing and environmental organizations. As an avid outdoorsman, his interests include camping, canoeing, hiking and fishing.

Arthur Saunders is the current Chair of the Foundation. He is a partner and general manager of Farrell Enterprises Limited and Burtex Industries. Farrell Enterprises supplies the moving and storage industry, while Burtex Industries distributes burlap products to the horticultural and construction industries. Mr. Saunders worked for five years as a journalist at Global Television News and has played the bass fiddle with the York Symphony Orchestra. He studied English, renaissance studies and history at the University of Toronto and is an experienced canoe tripper.

Roger Suffling, Ph. D. (E-mail: rcsuffli@fes.uwaterloo.ca; Web page http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/u/rcsuffli/) holds degrees in botany, weed science and ecology from the Universities of Wales and Guelph and is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at the University of Waterloo. He teaches environmental assessment, natural resource management and ecology. He has also worked in the environmental consulting industry. His primary research interests are in the mid North, and concern management of forest landscapes disturbed by fire and/or forest harvest. Roger serves as the Chairman of the Foundation's Scientific Advisory Committee. In his spare time, Dr. Suffling is an avid canoeist and enjoys gardening and geneology.

Tanny Wells is a past Chair of the Foundation. She is a realtor with Johnston & Daniel, who lives and works in Toronto. She participates in many community and environmental organizations and has served as Chair of the Task Force to Bring Back the Don, Vice-President of the South Rosedale Ratepayers Association, a Director of the World Wildlife Fund and an Executive Member of the Toronto Board of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. Ms. Wells studied at St. John's College, University of Manitoba and is interested in politics, music, sailing and canoeing.

Richard Lee Woods is a past Chair of the Foundation. In professional life, Mr. Woods practises law as a senior partner with the firm of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. Mr. Woods' interest in wilderness preservation has been fostered by a lifetime as a paddling enthusiast and in the last 20 years extensively in Quetico Park.