kitchen manager

chef de publicité

animateur sportif

maintenance supervisor

Wilderness Tours

I never once received a paycheck that was correct from Wilderness Tours. Every paycheck was always missing several days of work, and I always had to go back in and tell them about the mistake. This happened to every single employee every time we were paid. It happened so much it seemed like it wasn't a mistake.
You are also required to purchase your staff uniform (one for on the river, one for off the river), at a price that comes out in profit for Wilderness Tours. Thus you must pay to work there. It took some guides one or two paychecks in order to pay off their credit with Wilderness Tours for their staff uniform. That's two weeks of free work that Wilderness tours is getting out of their staff members every year. 

Working on the river was very fun, but the culture at Wilderness Tours is one of extreme misogyny and hazing of new guides. Not a great place to work if you are a woman, and not great management to look up to for role models of quality guides. Their best guide would be the worst guide at any company out west or abroad.

Working as a raft guide or even in general will at WT will change your views about the work to life mix. Working at WT your work quickly becomes your life and strangely enough its quick enjoyable that way. You'll be quick to make friends, and enjoy working along side them. Working at WT is a unique experience that you will remember for the rest of your life and say "I did that." Not to mention being on the river everyday is amazing.

Wilderness Tours is a wonderful place to work and play. It is a busy seasonal company, so you can expect to work some long hours but so worth it! All the staff are super friendly. It is a full resort, so there is everything from bar/restaurant, reception area, office staff, bungee jumping, pools & hottubs, housekeeping and maintenance staff. I would definitely recommend it !

Working for Wilderness Tours and Algonquin college taught me a lot about responsibility and leadership. I was in charge of creating a curriculum that would benefit my students in their learning experience
It was an incredibly enjoyable job snowboarding and teaching every day.

Overall it was an amazing place to work (coming from a reception/retail worker) just not always the most exciting job during the slower times of the season. 

Working with Wilderness Tours was the most laid back, and exciting summer job. Every day was new challenge on the river. When you were on your off time there was plenty of things to do at the resort.

Fun party job for the summer but at the expense of very low wages, little respect from management , unorganized and outdated systems, job culture is based on hazing, low quality of life: accommodations, food provided.

I enjoyed my time there. Got along well with my colleagues and through support from others I was able to eventually move up the 'hierarchy' and work more independently.

working at wilderness tours was really cool I loved being out in the outdoors and working at my own pace. people were very friendly and workers worked really hard it was always a group effort

was a fun summer, some drama with management but other than that a great place to work! Would recommend if youre looking for summer employment in the Ottawa Valley area.

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Kitchen manager 1 salary reported	$213 per day
Chef de publicité 2 salaries reported	$20.00 per hour
Animateur sportif 2 salaries reported	$20.00 per hour
Maintenance supervisor 1 salary reported	$145 per day

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