This fonds consists of a scrapbook containing photographs depicting Oak Ridge Camp activities and canoe trips. Included in the album are newspaper clippings relating to Stoney Lake Regatta. Photographs of Mount Rushmore, Catalina, Yellowstone Park and La Jolla Beach can also be found in this collection.
Oak Ridge CampCollection includes material documenting the history of the YMCA Camp Sunfish camp. Most records pertain to the leasing and maintenance of the property from Elliot-Croft Camp, who leased it to the Danforth Young Men's Christian Association to be used as a camp for boys. File includes property documents, minutes, and correspondence.
Item is a photocopy of a letter written 10 December 1953 by Mark Robinson, Superintendent and Ranger of Algonquin Park, to Mr. & Mrs. Taylor Statten, parents of Taylor Statten of Camp Ahmek.
Robinson, MarkFile includes correspondence written by camp director, Mrs. Pickles; also camp form letters, applications, etc.
This addition to the fonds consists of administrative records of the Canadian Camping Association from 1936 to 1962, including a complete set of annual, executive and board meeting minutes from 1936 to 1957, the constitution, structure, bibliography and camping history. Records regarding joint conferences with Quebec Camping Association, the Ontario Camping Association and the Ontario Camping Association Research Committee are also included.
Canadian Camping AssociationThe fonds consists of minutes, reports, budgets, correspondence and other records relating to the administration of Camp Illahee.
Camp IllaheeThis fonds consists of the personal papers of F.M Van Wagner of Montreal, relating to his activities in the Canadian Camping Association from its founding in 1936 to 1965. He was at one time a president of the association. The papers consist of memos, correspondence, minutes, drafts of constitutions, and various materials on other provincial associations on camping standards and other topics.
Canadian Camping AssociationThe fonds consists of minutes, 1941-1961; reports, 1940-1961; food costs sheets; clippings and brochures relating to Camp Pine Crest.
Camp Pine CrestThis addition to the fonds consists of receipts, recipes, slides and photographs of Dr. Mary Northway and Flora Morrison. There are also records for the production of Echoes and Reflections of Flora Morrison.
Fonds includes miscellaneous accounts, receipts, camping equipment lists, correspondence, insurance policies pertaining to Windy Pine. Also includes a cassette tape recording re: early days at Windy Pine, and a transcription provided in 2014 by Joan McIlwain via Professor Julia Harrison
Slide Box: Approximately 160 slides of Windy Pine, 1950's and 1960's.
Photo envelope: Photographs of Mary Northway and Flora Morrison and their friends at Windy Pine, 1950's and 1960's.
Loose on shelf: Production materials for Echoes and Reflections: photographs which were reproduced in the booklet; galley proofs.
Windy Pine PointThis fonds consists of records of a Jewish Boy Scout Camp called Camp Tamarack. The fonds has minutes of the Tamarack Association, correspondence, form letters, bulletins, photographs, financial statements, inventories, accounts, reports, camp programmes, menus, brochures, insurance policies, construction proposals, Public Health Department licenses and reports, minutes of the Camp Services Co-operative and other information regarding school camping and the Boy Scouts of Canada.
Camp TamarackThe fonds consists of the papers and records of the Ontario Camping Association delineating its operation and policies, conferences, special programmes; the Canadian Camping Magazine; and brochures, photographs, newsletters from member camps. The fonds also contains the Ontario Camping Association's newsletter, and some sound and tape recordings of conference.
Ontario Camps AssociationThis fonds consists of correspondence in regards to camping, typescripts of books written by Ron Perry, and correspondence with publishers.
Perry, Ronald H.This fonds consists of the constitution, by-laws, minutes, reports and correspondence to the Canadian Camping Association, its officers and committees. Also included are a series of photographs of Canadian Camping Association members and events.
Canadian Camping AssociationFile contains a scrapbook assembled by Helen (Miki) Spring, dedicated to Adele "Couchie" Ebbs (nee Statten), upon her becoming an Honourary Life Associate of the Ontario Camping Association. Within the scrapbook are conversations with Ebbs about her time at Camp Wapomeo and Camp Ahmek as a camper and camp counsellor, thank you letters from former campers and friends of Ebbs, a timeline of Ebbs achievements related to the camp and statistical information about the annual resources and supplies that are needed to run the camp. Also contained are family photographs of Ebbs and her husband Harry circa 1940, exterior and interior shots of the camp buildings and cabins throughout Ebbs time with the camps, camper activities such as playing games, sailing and canoeing, and illustrated, coloured maps of Camp Wapomeo and Camp Ahmek.
This fonds consists of books, correspondence, invoices, receipts and legal papers relating to Camp Kawabi on Big Hawk Lake, Ontario.
Camp KawabiThe fonds consists of the personal records of Adele and Harry Ebbs relating to Camp Ahmek, Camp Wapameo, Algonquin Park Advisory Committee, Camp Tonakela (Madras, India) and camps in North Carolina, U.S.A. Also included are photographs as well as textual records which relate to the Ontario and Canadian Camping Associations.
Ebbs, Adele and J. HarryThis addition to the fonds consists of the constitution, by-laws, minutes, reports, correspondence, photographs, brochures of member camps collected by the Ontario Camping Association.
Ontario Camps AssociationFonds consists of textual records and photographs of Camp Tonakela, Madras, India which was sponsored by Taylor Statten Camps, Canada.
Brock, TedThis addition to the fonds consists of the records of Dr. Mary L. Northway which include: household records, tape recordings regarding family genealogy, property records, records of her participation in the Ontario Camping and Canadian Camping Associations. There are also miscellaneous records concerning the winding-up of the Northway Company Limited of which Dr. Mary Northway was president.
Northway familyThis addition to the fonds consists of correspondence, notes and documents relating to the Canadian Camping Association.
Canadian Camping AssociationThis addition to the fonds consists of minutes, by-laws, correspondence, financial records, and membership lists of the Society of Camp Directors. Also included is a questionnaire on canoe trip practices and a proposal for a new project titled "Why Children go to Camp."
Society of Camp DirectorsThis addition to the fonds consists of the Canadian Camping Association's Board Executive minutes, reports and documents from 1976 to 1981. Also included are: a 1967 annual report; provincial association liason materials; Canadian Camping Magazine editorial committee minutes, reports and correspondence; a 1968 Canoeing Instructor Course manual; a survey of camp directors and staff, 1975; a CCA Task Force final report, 1977; and two audio disc recordings of a talk by John Fisher (Mr. Canada) delivered on CBC, 26 March 1950.
Canadian Camping AssociationThis fonds consists of records, photographs and slides of Windy Pine, private cottage and cabins owned by Dr. Mary Northway and Flora Morrison. They ran girls canoe trips at the camp during the 1940s.
Windy Pine PointThis fonds consists of correspondence, minutes of meetings, camp visitation reports, historical background papers from the standards committee, provincial board reports, related files from Association records from Miss Kelly and other records relating to the Quebec Camping Association.
Quebec Camping Association