Welcome to the Watersheds Canada Resource Library!
Here you will find a comprehensive collection of free educational resources dedicated to helping rural shoreline property owners, families, municipalities, lake groups, and educators protect their lakes and restore natural habitat. Explore guides, best practices, case studies, lesson plans, and tools to become a freshwater protector. Funding support thanks to Peterborough K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation, and S.M. Blair Family Foundation.
10 Days of Nature Based Winter Activities 2025
Our annual '10 Days of Winter' campaign provides you with fun activities, crafts, and resources to help you get outside and connect with nature throughout the winter months. This is the 2025 edition that includes snow painting, bird ID, making conifer tea, and more!
10 Days of Winter Activities with Your Family! 2024
Our annual '10 Days of Winter' campaign provides you with fun activities, crafts, and resources to help you get outside and connect with nature throughout the winter months. This is the 2024 edition that includes stargazing, making a Christmas simmer pot, doing a pinecone experiment, and more!
10 Days of Winter Fun! 2023
Our annual '10 Days of Winter' campaign provides you with fun activities, crafts, and resources to help you get outside and connect with nature throughout the winter months. This is the 2023 edition that includes maple taffy, nature journaling, building a weather station, and more!
10 Ways to Enjoy Nature this Winter 2022
Our annual '10 Days of Winter' campaign provides you with fun activities, crafts, and resources to help you get outside and connect with nature throughout the winter months. This is the 2022 edition that includes building a winter shelter, doing winter sports, finding animal tracks, and more!
10 successful years for Love Your Lake
This blog post was written in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of our shoreline assessment program, Love Your Lake. It highlights the impact of the program so far, and tells of the most important shoreline features assessors look for: having a natural shoreline full of trees, shrubs, and wildflowers. Naturalized shorelines provide so many benefits to us and to our wildlife - read this blog post to learn more!
11 Activities Lake Groups and Their Members Can Participate in for a Healthy Lake by Love Your Lake
Lake groups can implement programs to protect lake health and biodiversity by engaging property owners in various activities. These activities include organizing native plant purchases, participating in citizen science programs, and monitoring water quality. Learn more in this article from Love Your Lake!
20 years of Watersheds Canada
Watersheds Canada was proud to celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2022. This blog post, written by executive director Robert Pye, reflects on our organization's impact on freshwater ecosystems across Canada and all the diverse wildlife they host. He also discusses how much more work there is do, especially in the face of a changing climate, invasion by alien species, blooms of harmful algae, and other issues affecting our freshwater.
2019 Brook Trout Creek Tour with Cabelas Canada Staff - Watersheds Canada
Staff from the Ottawa Cabela’s Canada store attended an education and awareness event at Easton’s Creek on September 19, 2019 to learn about the project and the importance of brook trout to the area. This video was taken the day of the event and features narration from Habitat and Stewardship Program Manager Melissa Dakers.
2021 Year-end Celebration Event
This webinar was originally recorded on January 19, 2022. Join our staff for this one-hour webinar to see all that was accomplished in 2021 for Canada's freshwater. We shared the amazing on-the-ground impacts youth, grassroots organizations, waterfront property owners, and individuals had for your lakes and rivers. The evening was finished with a time to ask questions and talk to our staff.