This Turbo Beaver is operated by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources for its entire life and is seen here at Smoke Lake, Algonquin Park (Ont.) on a beautiful day in June 2000.

The Ontario Provincial Air Service was founded in 1924 and is the world's oldest aerial firefighting agency, now know as the aviation division of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR). The MNR acquired its first AS350B-2 in the early 1990s to supplement its Bell LongRangers used for firefighting and natural resources work. This AS350B-2 was purchased from Eurocopter Canada in May 1999 and operated until April 2011 when replaced by a new EC130 and sold to Custom Helicopters in Manitoba. Photographed at the MNR Smoke Lake seaplane base heliport in Algonquin Provincial Park.

This Turbo Beaver was delivered new to the Ontario Dept. of Lands and Forests (now Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources on Jul, 25, 1966 and has been based at MNR hangar at Smoke Lake in Algonquin Park for at least the past 20 years, with a new seaplane ramp installed in 2017. The aircraft is maintained at the MNR hangar at Muskoka Airport and this is where the aircraft is converted to wheel/skis for winter operations on the frozen lake and snow. The aircraft is parked on the base helipad in this photo. The plane is used to fly Algonquin's park rangers to remote sites.

This Turbo Beaver was delivered new to the Ontario Dept. of Lands and Forests (now Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources on Jul, 25, 1966 and has been based at MNR hangar at Smoke Lake in Algonquin Park for at least the past 20 years. The aircraft is maintained at the MNR hangar at Muskoka Airport and this is where the aircraft is converted to wheel/skis for winter operations on the frozen lake and snow.

Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has operated aircraft in Algonquin Park since the 1920s. The hangar at the Smoke Lake Airbase on the south side of Highway 60 was constructed in 1939. It has been the home of a DHC-2 Beaver or DHC-2 Mk III Turbo Beaver since the Ontario Provincial Air Service (OPAS) - the launch customer for both - took deliver of its first Beaver in 1948. Turbo Beaver C-FOEH has been based here for 20+ years, but is maintained at Muskoka Airport. With the introduction of amphibious floats in the 1990s, the docks at the air base were removed.