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The children's camp remained in operation as an overnight camp until 1962 and as a day camp until 1971. A family-oriented adult campground that was used mostly on weekends and holidays developed adjacent to the children's camp that, at its peak, contained some 90 cottages as well as room for tents.
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Camp B'nai Brith moved to its current location in 1929. [6] All capital and operating costs were financed by Mount Royal Lodge until 1942, when Camp B'nai Brith became a constituent agency of the Combined Jewish Appeal. From 1954 to 1964, the camp grew to accommodate over 1000 campers, most of whom received scholarships to attend. [5]
While sponsored by the Lodge, the camp was initially run under the strict supervision of the District Boy Scouts Association. [3] Beginning in 1938, Camp B'nai Brith set aside two weeks for a girls camp at the conclusion of the boys' four week camp. [4] The camp moved its current site on the shore of the Ottawa River in Quyon, Quebec in 1946. [5]
Camp Gesher originated in 1963 as a member of the Dror Hachalutz Hatzair Zionist Youth Organization, a merger of Camp Revivim (serving campers from Ottawa and Toronto) and Camp Kissufim (serving campers from Montreal). [3] Gesher was the first camp to test the merging of the Habonim and Dror Youth Movements in 1975.
The camp was established in 1946, and was operated by the YMCA until 2015. It is now independently owned and operated and functions as an overnight summer camp and centre for outdoor education in the spring and fall. Davern is proud of their now third-generation campers and its long legacy as one of Ontario oldest summer camps.
RKY Camp is a non-profit organization [1] and summer camp, accredited by the Ontario Camping Association, in Parham, Ontario, Canada, north of Kingston, Ontario. [2] [3] Operating since 1929 on Eagle Lake, RKY Camp was founded by The Rotary Club, Kiwanis International, and the YMCA of Kingston, [4] making up the abbreviation 'R.K.Y.'. [5]
At present, Hashomer Hatzair North America operates two Camp Shomrias: one in Perth, Ontario, which has been operating since the late 1950s and takes campers from Canada and parts of the United States, and an older camp at Liberty, New York, in the Catskills, that was founded in the 1940s. Since 2003, Camp Shomria Liberty has included Israeli ...