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Elk Island Visitor Centre
In May 2003 the Friends, in partnership with Kalyna Country, took over the Information Centre by the Park's south gate. With one full time summer employee and the help of volunteers from the Board we provided tourist information and the sale of gifts and souvenirs from the facility, renamed the Elk Island Visitor Centre.
Early indications are that the gift shop broke even during it's first season. There is significant potential for the facility both to raise much needed funds for the Society and to increase public awareness of the recreational potential of Elk Island National Park and the Beaverhills area in general.
Whilst it is a notable achievement for the Friends to be operating this facility, more notable is the impact it has had on the Park's ability to deliver interpretive programs. As a direct result of the FEIS involvement in the Information Centre interpretive staff have been freed up and are once again to be seen mingling with visitors during holiday weekends. So successful has this initiative been that EINP interpretive staff have delivered programs to 6,000 more people than in the same period of 2002.
