La Salle teacher receives Algonquin Park award
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Rory MacKay, a science teacher at La Salle Secondary School, is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Friends of Algonquin Park Directors’ Award.
The award, presented June 14 at the Algonquin Park Visitor Centrem honours those individuals who have made an outstanding contribution towards the appreciation of Algonquin.
MacKay first began vacationing in the park with his parents at the age of five months and that has continued at the family cottage every summer since. He began working as a summer naturalist at the park museum 30 years ago with oral history interviews of park old-timers. He has since written two books and three booklets on park history, contributed to two historical theme websites for the Virtual Museum of Canada; set up a park archives and blacksmith shop at the Algonquin Logging Museum, and has conducted archaeological investigations on a 19th century (1850-1867) depot farm over the past six years.
Past recipients include former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau (canoeist), John and Janet Foster (cinematographers), Dan Gibson (nature sounds recordist) and Kirk Wipper (founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum).
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