by Laura Berton – Camper 2003; Staff 2004-2006 It was the summer of 2003, and boredom stretched before me. I’d been feeling restless as I hadn’t yet made many plans. My aunt suggested I register for Camp Big Canoe’s Counsellors In Training Program (CIT, now called Leaders In Training). I Read more…
by Zach Mills – Camper 2000-2006, Staff 2007-2012 Whenever I think about camp it is an overwhelming rush of emotions and memories almost too hard to take in for its sheer volume. Countless happy memories, silly memories, life lessons learned, and emotions ranging the full spectrum, helping me ground camp as Read more…
by Alison Parker – Staff, 2004-2006, 2008 The summer when I was 18, I was looking to put my canoe tripping skills to use and find a job at a summer camp as a tripper. I had a few job offers – all at camps that I knew nothing about. Read more…
The Toronto Star Fresh Air Fund helps to send 25,000 children to camps across Ontario, and we at Camp Big Canoe are thrilled to have been involved with such a wonderful initiative over the years! The best thing about the fund is that often kids themselves don’t know they are Read more…
by Laura Snelgrove – Camper, Staff member It’s impossible to choose a single memory that gets anywhere close to expressing what Big Canoe has meant to me for the last 25 years. I tried! But when I close my eyes and think of camp, I think of walking up the Read more…
by Tom Griffin – Staff 2002 I only worked at Big Canoe for one summer. And it was my first time to Canada too. I remember it being like a postcard- when you see unusual landscapes for the first time their differences are emphasized and even more magical. What a Read more…
by Tara Wannamaker – Staff 1998 – 2000 and 2002 Camp Big Canoe wasn’t my first camp experience. As a camper I’d been to three or four different camps and I’d been a staff member at three camps before CBC. By the time I arrived at Camp Big Canoe in Read more…
by Doug Clark – Staff 1977-80 My Mom took our family to Bolton Camp when I was 3 years old. I remember that I was in a skit with some much older kids – not a shy kid – a sign of things to come maybe. I really haven’t stopped Read more…
by Scott ‘Flash’ McKay Before the first season (1966 ?), Jim Burns took a bunch of us up to the camp and we built the platforms for the tents and the dock. We’d known each other from being campers at Simpresca. Later on I was a CIT and counsellor for Read more…
by Nikki Risk – Camper 1994-1997; Staff 1998-2000, 2005-2006 I was not supposed to be a Camp Big Canoe Camper. Back in 1994 my parents didn’t have the money to send my sister and I to overnight camp, but my mother was an active member of the Richmond Hill United Church Read more…