Vision, Mission and Mandate

VISION: All living and non-living things, communities, and societies co-existing are living in balance and harmony and enjoying respectful, healthy, culturally vibrant and equitable relationships within a sustainable and healthy ecosystem.

MISSION: The mission of Gamiing Nature Centre is to build a sustainable, healthy and robust ecosystem for current and future generations and build, strengthen and enrich Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships.

MANDATE: Gamiing is located on the west shores of Pigeon Lake in the territory of the Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg. As such, all stewardship, ecological education and cultural programing is done in accordance with Treaty 20 and the Williams Treaties and has a foundation rooted in Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge of the Anishinaabeg Nations combined with scientific methods and technology. Gamiing has a pedagogical approach to program delivery that is based on emergent and inquiry learning. The defining feature of our programs is that people are provided with opportunities to build relationships with the land, water, community, and with themselves. Gamiing Nature Centre is an environmental and natural heritage conservation and management education centre whose focus is on ecological education and research and Mississauga Anishnaabeg cultural programming.

About GAMIING NATURE CENTRE

Gamiing Nature Centre has an interesting history of indigenous settlement and European colonization. In 1984 the Schipper family purchased the 100 acre abandoned farm on the west shore of Pigeon Lake. To protect the land from development it was put in Trust with the Kawartha Land Trust in 2002 to preserve it in perpetuity to keep it available as an environmental education site for our and future generations. This was the first gift to the Kawartha Land Trust (previously named Kawartha Heritage Conservancy) The family re-established the original forest by allowing the land to revert to its natural state. With planting stock provided by MNR and the help of family, friends and volunteers, hundreds of native trees were planted on the property. Gamiing Nature Centre was established as a charitable organization in 2000,with a Board of Directors to guide the activities on the property. That name was chosen to honour those who lived on the land before us and to indicate our location along the shore.See www.gamiing.org