W.J.B. Greenwood

W.J.B. Greenwood Provincial Park is a 465-hectare recreational park established in 1985 on the southern shores of Bay Lake, a reservoir on the Montreal River, within the Municipality of Latchford approximately 130 kilometres north of North Bay. The park was named in honor of Ben Greenwood, who served as Ontario's first Chief of Parks from 1954 to 1960, recognizing his pioneering contributions to Ontario's provincial parks system. Located in the internationally recognized Temagami ecotourism and outdoor recreation region, the park sits within the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Forest and Boreal Forest transition zone, part of the Saint Lawrence River drainage basin. The area features significant geological features including volcanic dikes from the Early Precambrian period and metamorphic hybrid minerals created by intense pressures deep within the Earth's crust. The park lies within n'Daki Menan, the ancestral homeland of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai (the deepwater people), who have inhabited the Temagami area for over 6,000 years and maintain cultural and spiritual connections to this landscape.