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Camp Massad of Canada (Hebrew: מַחֲנֶה מַסָד, Maḥaneh Massad) is a Zionist Jewish summer camp in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, with headquarters in Montreal. It was founded in 1947, with the creation of Massad Alef on Lac Quenouille in the Laurentian Mountains . [ 2 ]
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.
Wanakita began as an all-boys camp and during its early years, the nurse was the only woman who was regularly on the camp grounds. In 1969, the camp started offering the same opportunities to girls. [5] Since 1991, Wanakita has partnered with Hemophilia Ontario and offered instruction on the proper use of clotting agents. [6] [7]
Camp Ramah in Canada (Hebrew: מחנה רמה, romanized: Machaneh Ramah) is a Jewish summer camp located at Skeleton Lake in Utterson in Muskoka, Ontario, approximately two hours north of Toronto. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Part of the National Ramah Commission , Ramah is affiliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism . [ 4 ]
Camp Gray (Catholic), Wisconsin; Camp Iawah (Christian), Godfrey, Ontario, Canada; Camp Ondessonk (Catholic), Illinois; Camp Unirondack (Unitarian Universalist), New York; Christian Service Brigade (Non-Denominational), New York
Since 2003, the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces association has sponsored a summer camp program, Moreshet, for Israeli children who have lost a parent or sibling in a war or terrorist attack. The children spend the summer at Jewish sleep-away camps in the United States. In 2007, Camp Ramah in the Berkshires hosted 50 campers and staff members.
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 ...
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.