DCHP-3

park ranger

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a government official responsible for the maintenance and patrolling of a national or provincial park.

Quotations

1912
Next day, after seeing the park ranger about the burial place, the doctor and I went down with four labourers on a hand-car to a place where there is a flat stretch of land near the Athabasca River.
1958
. . . two park rangers tramped on snowshoes for five days and nights . . . tracking a wolf pack.
1965
[Caption] Park Ranger . . . "light up" at a campsite on Keats Lake.