Watersheds Canada
@watersheds.ca
National charity dedicated to facilitating community action in protecting and restoring our country's lakes, rivers, and shorelands. watersheds.ca
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Watersheds Canada
@watersheds.ca
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It’s who we are.
Watersheds Canada is a registered Canadian charity enhancing & restoring our country's freshwater. We bring communities together to care for their lakes, rivers, and shorelines, ensuring freshwater areas can support humans and wildlife for years to come. Learn more: watersheds.ca
Watersheds Canada is a registered Canadian charity enhancing & restoring our country's freshwater. We bring communities together to care for their lakes, rivers, and shorelines, ensuring freshwater areas can support humans and wildlife for years to come. Learn more: watersheds.ca
Watersheds Canada is on the shoreline and in the water to ensure fish habitat restoration projects are happening! You can ensure more lakes are restored in 2026 by making your Giving Tuesday gift today: watersheds.ca/match
November 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Watersheds Canada is on the shoreline and in the water to ensure fish habitat restoration projects are happening! You can ensure more lakes are restored in 2026 by making your Giving Tuesday gift today: watersheds.ca/match
Your Giving Tuesday donation will provide more shoreline communities with the resources they need to take positive actions for their lakes!
Don't miss your chance to multiply your impact for Canada's freshwater - donate by December 2nd: watersheds.ca/match
Don't miss your chance to multiply your impact for Canada's freshwater - donate by December 2nd: watersheds.ca/match
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Your Giving Tuesday donation will provide more shoreline communities with the resources they need to take positive actions for their lakes!
Don't miss your chance to multiply your impact for Canada's freshwater - donate by December 2nd: watersheds.ca/match
Don't miss your chance to multiply your impact for Canada's freshwater - donate by December 2nd: watersheds.ca/match
For this Giving Tuesday, all new monthly donations to Watersheds Canada will be TRIPLED, and all one-time donations will be DOUBLED!
Donate now and multiple your impact for Canada's freshwater: watersheds.ca/match
Donate now and multiple your impact for Canada's freshwater: watersheds.ca/match
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
For this Giving Tuesday, all new monthly donations to Watersheds Canada will be TRIPLED, and all one-time donations will be DOUBLED!
Donate now and multiple your impact for Canada's freshwater: watersheds.ca/match
Donate now and multiple your impact for Canada's freshwater: watersheds.ca/match
Watersheds Canada's award-winning Fish Habitat Program has requests across Ontario of lakes in need of restoration. Help us partner alongside more lake groups, First Nations communities, fish and game clubs, and volunteers!
Donate now and get your Giving Tuesday gift matched: watersheds.ca/match
Donate now and get your Giving Tuesday gift matched: watersheds.ca/match
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Watersheds Canada's award-winning Fish Habitat Program has requests across Ontario of lakes in need of restoration. Help us partner alongside more lake groups, First Nations communities, fish and game clubs, and volunteers!
Donate now and get your Giving Tuesday gift matched: watersheds.ca/match
Donate now and get your Giving Tuesday gift matched: watersheds.ca/match
The Nature Art Raffle grand prizes will be drawn TOMORROW - don't miss out!
You can take home one of these unique, hand-made pieces of art made by Canadian artists. Total value of both prizes is $3,300!
You've got to be in it to win it! Purchase raffle tickets TODAY at: 👉 https://water5050.ca/ 👈
You can take home one of these unique, hand-made pieces of art made by Canadian artists. Total value of both prizes is $3,300!
You've got to be in it to win it! Purchase raffle tickets TODAY at: 👉 https://water5050.ca/ 👈
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The Nature Art Raffle grand prizes will be drawn TOMORROW - don't miss out!
You can take home one of these unique, hand-made pieces of art made by Canadian artists. Total value of both prizes is $3,300!
You've got to be in it to win it! Purchase raffle tickets TODAY at: 👉 https://water5050.ca/ 👈
You can take home one of these unique, hand-made pieces of art made by Canadian artists. Total value of both prizes is $3,300!
You've got to be in it to win it! Purchase raffle tickets TODAY at: 👉 https://water5050.ca/ 👈
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In community gardens + at homes, rain barrels divert runoff & reduce demands on municipal water supply 🌧️🛢️
⤵️Here are the steps you need to take to protect your rain barrel as the temperature drops🌡️
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#WaterManagement
⤵️Here are the steps you need to take to protect your rain barrel as the temperature drops🌡️
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#WaterManagement
How to Prepare Your Rain Barrels for Winter - Green Communities Canada
Rain barrels are vulnerable during the winter. Here are the four easy steps to winterize your rain barrels so they can serve you in years to come.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In community gardens + at homes, rain barrels divert runoff & reduce demands on municipal water supply 🌧️🛢️
⤵️Here are the steps you need to take to protect your rain barrel as the temperature drops🌡️
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#WaterManagement
⤵️Here are the steps you need to take to protect your rain barrel as the temperature drops🌡️
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#WaterManagement
1/ Watersheds Canada's Nature Discovery Programming reached more children and youth than ever in 2025, and you have the chance to help us reach more families and classes in 2026!
We're delivering in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario and have big plans to expand coast-to-coast-to-coast!
We're delivering in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario and have big plans to expand coast-to-coast-to-coast!
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
1/ Watersheds Canada's Nature Discovery Programming reached more children and youth than ever in 2025, and you have the chance to help us reach more families and classes in 2026!
We're delivering in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario and have big plans to expand coast-to-coast-to-coast!
We're delivering in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario and have big plans to expand coast-to-coast-to-coast!
Your donation matched means more native plants in the ground across Canada! Restore more shorelines, wetlands, and community parks with your Giving Tuesday donation today: watersheds.ca/match
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Your donation matched means more native plants in the ground across Canada! Restore more shorelines, wetlands, and community parks with your Giving Tuesday donation today: watersheds.ca/match
Your support in 2025 has resulted in over 14,000 native trees, shrubs, grasses, and wildflowers being planted on shorelines in BC, MB, ON, QC, & NS!
You can ensure even more shorelines are restored in 2026 by making your Giving Tuesday donation today: watersheds.ca/match
You can ensure even more shorelines are restored in 2026 by making your Giving Tuesday donation today: watersheds.ca/match
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Your support in 2025 has resulted in over 14,000 native trees, shrubs, grasses, and wildflowers being planted on shorelines in BC, MB, ON, QC, & NS!
You can ensure even more shorelines are restored in 2026 by making your Giving Tuesday donation today: watersheds.ca/match
You can ensure even more shorelines are restored in 2026 by making your Giving Tuesday donation today: watersheds.ca/match
1/ Hear from Kristyn Ferguson, Ontario Conservation Accelerator's managing director, on why this #GivingTuesday is the best time to become a new monthly donor thanks to this exciting, limited offer match opportunity:
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
1/ Hear from Kristyn Ferguson, Ontario Conservation Accelerator's managing director, on why this #GivingTuesday is the best time to become a new monthly donor thanks to this exciting, limited offer match opportunity:
Nature Art Raffle Artist Spotlight: Sue Miller 🎨
Sue Miller is a Canadian painter inspired by our lakes and forests. Her painting, “Balance”, captures that fleeting moment when sunrise meets water.
YOU can win this beautiful painting! Enter our Nature Art Raffle TODAY at: https://water5050.ca/
Sue Miller is a Canadian painter inspired by our lakes and forests. Her painting, “Balance”, captures that fleeting moment when sunrise meets water.
YOU can win this beautiful painting! Enter our Nature Art Raffle TODAY at: https://water5050.ca/
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Nature Art Raffle Artist Spotlight: Sue Miller 🎨
Sue Miller is a Canadian painter inspired by our lakes and forests. Her painting, “Balance”, captures that fleeting moment when sunrise meets water.
YOU can win this beautiful painting! Enter our Nature Art Raffle TODAY at: https://water5050.ca/
Sue Miller is a Canadian painter inspired by our lakes and forests. Her painting, “Balance”, captures that fleeting moment when sunrise meets water.
YOU can win this beautiful painting! Enter our Nature Art Raffle TODAY at: https://water5050.ca/
Species Spotlight: Wild Black Current (Ribes americanum)
Wild Black Currant is a species of shrub that has bell-shaped flower clusters that are white to yellow in colour, and leaves that are palmate, heart-shaped, coarsely toothed, and have 3-5 lobes.
Learn more here: https://shorturl.at/CpqUD
Wild Black Currant is a species of shrub that has bell-shaped flower clusters that are white to yellow in colour, and leaves that are palmate, heart-shaped, coarsely toothed, and have 3-5 lobes.
Learn more here: https://shorturl.at/CpqUD
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Species Spotlight: Wild Black Current (Ribes americanum)
Wild Black Currant is a species of shrub that has bell-shaped flower clusters that are white to yellow in colour, and leaves that are palmate, heart-shaped, coarsely toothed, and have 3-5 lobes.
Learn more here: https://shorturl.at/CpqUD
Wild Black Currant is a species of shrub that has bell-shaped flower clusters that are white to yellow in colour, and leaves that are palmate, heart-shaped, coarsely toothed, and have 3-5 lobes.
Learn more here: https://shorturl.at/CpqUD
Happy National Fisheries Day!
Freshwater ecosystems are vitally important fishery hubs - the Great Lakes' fisheries alone are valued at over $5 billion dollars per year.
National Fisheries Day shows appreciation for their commitment to sustainability, collaboration, and innovation.
Freshwater ecosystems are vitally important fishery hubs - the Great Lakes' fisheries alone are valued at over $5 billion dollars per year.
National Fisheries Day shows appreciation for their commitment to sustainability, collaboration, and innovation.
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Happy National Fisheries Day!
Freshwater ecosystems are vitally important fishery hubs - the Great Lakes' fisheries alone are valued at over $5 billion dollars per year.
National Fisheries Day shows appreciation for their commitment to sustainability, collaboration, and innovation.
Freshwater ecosystems are vitally important fishery hubs - the Great Lakes' fisheries alone are valued at over $5 billion dollars per year.
National Fisheries Day shows appreciation for their commitment to sustainability, collaboration, and innovation.
Watersheds Canada is thrilled to announce the launch of the Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program – Marginal Lands Initiative.
This program will support farmers and other rural landowners in implementing projects that improve soil and water health, restore habitat, and build climate resilience.
This program will support farmers and other rural landowners in implementing projects that improve soil and water health, restore habitat, and build climate resilience.
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Watersheds Canada is thrilled to announce the launch of the Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program – Marginal Lands Initiative.
This program will support farmers and other rural landowners in implementing projects that improve soil and water health, restore habitat, and build climate resilience.
This program will support farmers and other rural landowners in implementing projects that improve soil and water health, restore habitat, and build climate resilience.
Nature Art Raffle Artist Spotlight: Michael A. Reader 🎨
Mike Reader's stunning carvings of native birds are never sold, but rather are used to make a difference for people and organizations that share his values on freshwater. The piece donated for our Nature Art Raffle is a wood duck decoy.
Mike Reader's stunning carvings of native birds are never sold, but rather are used to make a difference for people and organizations that share his values on freshwater. The piece donated for our Nature Art Raffle is a wood duck decoy.
November 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Nature Art Raffle Artist Spotlight: Michael A. Reader 🎨
Mike Reader's stunning carvings of native birds are never sold, but rather are used to make a difference for people and organizations that share his values on freshwater. The piece donated for our Nature Art Raffle is a wood duck decoy.
Mike Reader's stunning carvings of native birds are never sold, but rather are used to make a difference for people and organizations that share his values on freshwater. The piece donated for our Nature Art Raffle is a wood duck decoy.
Take a few minutes to relax with one of our colouring sheets!
Drawn by Sudbury, Ontario artist, Debra Lynn Ireland, these colouring sheets highlight different wildlife species that benefit from our habitat restoration programs.
Download yours for free at: watersheds.ca/.../nature.....
Drawn by Sudbury, Ontario artist, Debra Lynn Ireland, these colouring sheets highlight different wildlife species that benefit from our habitat restoration programs.
Download yours for free at: watersheds.ca/.../nature.....
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Take a few minutes to relax with one of our colouring sheets!
Drawn by Sudbury, Ontario artist, Debra Lynn Ireland, these colouring sheets highlight different wildlife species that benefit from our habitat restoration programs.
Download yours for free at: watersheds.ca/.../nature.....
Drawn by Sudbury, Ontario artist, Debra Lynn Ireland, these colouring sheets highlight different wildlife species that benefit from our habitat restoration programs.
Download yours for free at: watersheds.ca/.../nature.....
The “Guide to Building Resilient Shorelines” manual is for landowners wanting to increase the resiliency of their shoreline in the face of climate change.
Download the guide here: watersheds.ca/our-work/res...
Download the guide here: watersheds.ca/our-work/res...
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The “Guide to Building Resilient Shorelines” manual is for landowners wanting to increase the resiliency of their shoreline in the face of climate change.
Download the guide here: watersheds.ca/our-work/res...
Download the guide here: watersheds.ca/our-work/res...
Looking for an all-in-one hub of information about native plants? 🌱
Check out our Native Plant Database! In it, you can filter by region, type of plant, soil type, and light conditions to find the perfect match for your property.
Find it here: https://naturaledge.watersheds.ca/plant-database/
Check out our Native Plant Database! In it, you can filter by region, type of plant, soil type, and light conditions to find the perfect match for your property.
Find it here: https://naturaledge.watersheds.ca/plant-database/
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Looking for an all-in-one hub of information about native plants? 🌱
Check out our Native Plant Database! In it, you can filter by region, type of plant, soil type, and light conditions to find the perfect match for your property.
Find it here: https://naturaledge.watersheds.ca/plant-database/
Check out our Native Plant Database! In it, you can filter by region, type of plant, soil type, and light conditions to find the perfect match for your property.
Find it here: https://naturaledge.watersheds.ca/plant-database/
There's only TWO WEEKS LEFT to get your tickets for our Nature Art Raffle! 🎨🌱
Enter for your chance to win one of 2 unique, handmade grand prizes! Purchase tickets TODAY at: 👉 https://water5050.ca/ 👈
AGCO License number RAF1507935
Enter for your chance to win one of 2 unique, handmade grand prizes! Purchase tickets TODAY at: 👉 https://water5050.ca/ 👈
AGCO License number RAF1507935
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
There's only TWO WEEKS LEFT to get your tickets for our Nature Art Raffle! 🎨🌱
Enter for your chance to win one of 2 unique, handmade grand prizes! Purchase tickets TODAY at: 👉 https://water5050.ca/ 👈
AGCO License number RAF1507935
Enter for your chance to win one of 2 unique, handmade grand prizes! Purchase tickets TODAY at: 👉 https://water5050.ca/ 👈
AGCO License number RAF1507935
A new handout is available from our Freshwater Stewardship Community! 📢
This is from our most recent webinar that was hosted in partnership with Water Rangers, Water Watchers, Julie Wright from the City of Waterloo, Queen's University, and Smart About Salt
Download here: https://shorturl.at/j9VkJ
This is from our most recent webinar that was hosted in partnership with Water Rangers, Water Watchers, Julie Wright from the City of Waterloo, Queen's University, and Smart About Salt
Download here: https://shorturl.at/j9VkJ
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A new handout is available from our Freshwater Stewardship Community! 📢
This is from our most recent webinar that was hosted in partnership with Water Rangers, Water Watchers, Julie Wright from the City of Waterloo, Queen's University, and Smart About Salt
Download here: https://shorturl.at/j9VkJ
This is from our most recent webinar that was hosted in partnership with Water Rangers, Water Watchers, Julie Wright from the City of Waterloo, Queen's University, and Smart About Salt
Download here: https://shorturl.at/j9VkJ
Species Spotlight: Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea)
Pearly Everlasting is a medium-sized species of wildflower that typically grows up to 1m tall. It has grey-green leaves and unique white flowers that are small and appear in clusters.
Learn more here: https://shorturl.at/de6LE
Pearly Everlasting is a medium-sized species of wildflower that typically grows up to 1m tall. It has grey-green leaves and unique white flowers that are small and appear in clusters.
Learn more here: https://shorturl.at/de6LE
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Species Spotlight: Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea)
Pearly Everlasting is a medium-sized species of wildflower that typically grows up to 1m tall. It has grey-green leaves and unique white flowers that are small and appear in clusters.
Learn more here: https://shorturl.at/de6LE
Pearly Everlasting is a medium-sized species of wildflower that typically grows up to 1m tall. It has grey-green leaves and unique white flowers that are small and appear in clusters.
Learn more here: https://shorturl.at/de6LE
Thinking ahead to gift-giving season? Look no further than our symbolic adoptions!
By symbolically adopting one of our beautiful native species, you can help protect and restore the freshwater habitats they rely on!
Access our gift catalogue here: https://watersheds-canada.square.site/s/shop
By symbolically adopting one of our beautiful native species, you can help protect and restore the freshwater habitats they rely on!
Access our gift catalogue here: https://watersheds-canada.square.site/s/shop
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Thinking ahead to gift-giving season? Look no further than our symbolic adoptions!
By symbolically adopting one of our beautiful native species, you can help protect and restore the freshwater habitats they rely on!
Access our gift catalogue here: https://watersheds-canada.square.site/s/shop
By symbolically adopting one of our beautiful native species, you can help protect and restore the freshwater habitats they rely on!
Access our gift catalogue here: https://watersheds-canada.square.site/s/shop
We are grateful to have recently brought The Natural Edge shoreline restoration program to Manitoba, offering more community groups, shoreline property owners, and municipalities the tools, knowledge, & native plants they need to protect their local freshwater!
Funding: Manitoba Habitat Conservancy
Funding: Manitoba Habitat Conservancy
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
We are grateful to have recently brought The Natural Edge shoreline restoration program to Manitoba, offering more community groups, shoreline property owners, and municipalities the tools, knowledge, & native plants they need to protect their local freshwater!
Funding: Manitoba Habitat Conservancy
Funding: Manitoba Habitat Conservancy
GRAND PRIZE SPOTLIGHT - Painting, titled 'Balance', by Sue Miller
Balance captures that fleeting moment when sunrise meets water - a reminder of the harmony between the light, land, and water that sustains us all.
Purchase your tickets TODAY at: https://water5050.ca/
Balance captures that fleeting moment when sunrise meets water - a reminder of the harmony between the light, land, and water that sustains us all.
Purchase your tickets TODAY at: https://water5050.ca/
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
GRAND PRIZE SPOTLIGHT - Painting, titled 'Balance', by Sue Miller
Balance captures that fleeting moment when sunrise meets water - a reminder of the harmony between the light, land, and water that sustains us all.
Purchase your tickets TODAY at: https://water5050.ca/
Balance captures that fleeting moment when sunrise meets water - a reminder of the harmony between the light, land, and water that sustains us all.
Purchase your tickets TODAY at: https://water5050.ca/
GRAND PRIZE SPOTLIGHT: Wood duck decoy, by Michael A. Reader
This incredibly detailed, hand-carved wood duck represents a species directly impacted by the freshwater stewardship work made possible by ticket sales for this raffle.
Purchase raffle tickets TODAY at https://water5050.ca/
This incredibly detailed, hand-carved wood duck represents a species directly impacted by the freshwater stewardship work made possible by ticket sales for this raffle.
Purchase raffle tickets TODAY at https://water5050.ca/
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
GRAND PRIZE SPOTLIGHT: Wood duck decoy, by Michael A. Reader
This incredibly detailed, hand-carved wood duck represents a species directly impacted by the freshwater stewardship work made possible by ticket sales for this raffle.
Purchase raffle tickets TODAY at https://water5050.ca/
This incredibly detailed, hand-carved wood duck represents a species directly impacted by the freshwater stewardship work made possible by ticket sales for this raffle.
Purchase raffle tickets TODAY at https://water5050.ca/