SHARING AND CREATING KNOWLEDGE
ON THE SAUGEEN (BRUCE) PENINSULA
WHAT’S HAPPENING
We are excited to announce that the much-anticipated Forum on Fire has been rescheduled to October 24-26, 2025.
As wildfires dominate headlines worldwide, this year’s Forum will ask how we can better understand, respect, and live in balance with fire. The weekend opens Friday evening with Indigenous perspectives, followed by an anthropologist’s insights into the role of fire in human history. Saturday’s sessions will look closer to home, exploring fire on the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula and across Canada. Specialists from Canada’s national forestry service, Ontario’s emergency response teams, and Parks Canada will share expertise on preparedness, forest futures, wildfire monitoring, and climate change. A public panel on Sunday morning will draw together the weekend’s lessons for our communities. Registration is now open! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, connect, and be part of this conversation.
Our SOK Talk with Willy Waterton was a hit! It was not surprise that those who joined us reported having a very paw-sitive experience hearing from Willy about his encounters. He had many Kodiak moments to share featuring the black & white furry inhabitants of the Saugeen Peninsula & the North. Please bear with us as we gather some of those moments to share!
The Sources of Knowledge and the Peninsula Bruce Trail Club have been working on a new project!
This project has stemmed from our work cleaning up our water (Seabins) and our trails (Hike It! Love It! Keep It Clean!). After having analyzed so much of the waste that’s been collected, we’ve noticed some of the most found pieces are food and beverage containers, wraps, etc. This lead our organizations to try to find an alternative to these single use items.
If you’ve been to our Seabins Project page, you may have noticed a lot of opportunities to “learn more“. This is where we’ve been posting additional information about the seabins – what they do, how they work – but also a lot of new articles and information about the impacts of plastics!
See what’s new – like the video How Bad is Plastic and other resources.
The Sources of Knowledge Forum is intended to demonstrate how research in Bruce Peninsula National Park, Fathom Five National Marine Park, the surrounding community, and beyond can contribute to knowledge and understanding of the Saugeen-Bruce Peninsula.
In an effort to further the Sources of Knowledge goal to encourage and enable youth to be stewards of this remarkable place, we also administer an annual Student Bursary Award in partnership with Parks Canada. This bursary program has allowed us to help local students finance their post-secondary education, in areas of conservation and related themes, to work toward a prospective career with Parks Canada.
Our SoK Talk initiative aims to provide ongoing opportunities, outside of the Forum, to share knowledge on a wide variety of special interest topics. Subjects from the past, present, and future that help propagate continuous learning and understanding of the Peninsula and its people.
We acknowledge that SoK operates on the Territory of the Anishinabek Nation: The People of the Three Fires known as Ojibway, Odawa, and Pottawatomie Nations. And we further give thanks to the Chippewas of Saugeen, and the Chippewas of Nawash, known collectively as the Saugeen Ojibway Nation, as the traditional keepers of this land.
RESOURCES
Knowledge Begins Here.