Tuesday, June 24, 2025       

Storm forces cancellation of NNDSB summer school programming at Canadian Ecology Centre

Near North District School Board (NNDSB) is sad to announce that the devastating storm that swept through the Mattawa area on Saturday evening has forced the cancellation of summer school programming offered by our long-standing partner, the Canadian Ecology Centre (CEC).

The Canadian Ecology Centre is a non-profit organization supporting outdoor and environmental education. Teachers and students from across the province register every year to take advantage of the unique learning opportunity at the CEC.

Thankfully, all who were at the CEC on Saturday evening are safe, but the centre and surrounding Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park took a direct hit from the severe storm. The storm caused significant and landscape-altering damage.

Both sessions of the summer credit courses have been cancelled.

Staff of CEC have reached out to registered students and staff, and the process of demitting and refunding students has begun. Phone lines are down, and people are asked to be patient as staff reach out over the coming days.

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