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Registration Details

Financial Aid & Payment Details

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Discounts

Scholarships & awards:

• Birnie Hodgetts Memorial Children's Fund

  Amount: 70%

  Deadline: Rolling

  Type: Need based
  Age: 7 to 15
  Application Details: Your child’s situation and why sponsorship is being requested

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Staff and Counsellors

Property Details

Sports facilities

Landscape

More details about property: Camp Hurontario is located on a beautiful 40 acre island in the Georgian Bay. The 100+ acres of mainland around the island is also owned by the camp, which offers the perfect location for the campers to sail, canoe, and kayak to our nearby islands, as our location isn't crowded with cottages and boaters. The property is home to all sorts of wildlife such as frogs, turtles, snakes, and porcupines which we share the environment with. The main camp island boasts a range of waterfront areas and sandy beaches, while the interior of the island is forested, with large parts of the island undeveloped and left to nature. All paths on the island have been created over 80 summers of campers and counsellors walking them, so each day feels like a walk in nature.

Accommodations

Sleeping Accommodations

Amenities

Washrooms Facilities

More details about accommodations: Our comfortable cabins have two rooms and a shared front porch, designed for up to eight campers in total. Each camper is provided with a single bed and matress, and an individual shelf space, so everyone can enjoy having their own personal space while sharing accommodations with other campers. Each cabin comes with a canoe paddle rack and helpful hooks for hanging coats and lifejackets. In the heat of mid-summer, campers can opt to open the shutters on all their cabin windows to let the cool wind blow through the cabin. Well-maintained screens keep any univited guests out. Cabins have electricity with lights and outlets, and the camp provides a garbage pail and broom so our campers can keep their cabin clean and tidy during their stay. Our washrooms are not attached to the cabins, but are nearby. Their lights remain on overnight so they are easy to find when its dark. We have a mixture of flush toilets and outhouses, so campers can choose which type they are most comfortable with when nature calls.

Are meals provided? Yes. Hurontario provides its campers will three full nutritious and varied meals each day, along with an evening snack each night. Breakfasts consist of several courses of both hot and cold options; lunches and dinners are served with optional salads, soups, and delicious desserts. Our onsite chef and kitchen staff cater to all dietary allergies and restrictions, and with our onsite baker providing freshly baked bread every day, even pickier eaters are catered for. Throughout the summer, campers enjoy outdoor meals in the form of BBQs, cookouts over campfires, and buffet-style lunches in the shade. Any parent may request to speak with our chef ahead of the summer to discuss their son's requirements and review the camp's menu.

Is Camp Hurontario technology free? Yes. Hurontario is a completely technology-free camp, so campers do not bring with them any phones, tablets, ipods, portable gaming devices, or other electronic devices. Our counsellors do not have access to their phones during the day as their focus is on their campers and having fun at activities. Hurontario campers should spend their whole session at camp without seeing a phone, computer, or any other smart tech device. At Hurontario, campers might wind down in the evening by reading books or comics, telling stories, or playing cards.

Rentals & Services

Associations

Stories

• Camp Hurontario founded thanks to a piano

  On a fishing trip in 1946, Birnie Hodgetts and his brother Ted, paddled into what is now Hurontario's main camp bay. They pitched camp and spent a stormy night waiting for dawn to bring them the opportunity to explore this incredible sheltered bay they had found. Soon they realized that they were on a large and very beautiful island  surrounded by pristine lands .After much exploring of who owned the island and the mainland across from the island( Birnie was a visionary who knew that in time he had to have the far shore so in future summers no one could build across from camp island),Birnie set out to find out who owned the property.

  Title searches turned up the owners of the lsland .The island was for sale but acquiring the big mainland property was not going to be so easy.Mr Kingsmill owned the 150 acres deeded to him by Queen Victoria for fighting in the terrible Boer War. On hearing Birnie's vision for a children's camp, Mr. Kingsmill wrote back to say he would be happy to sell the property but that he would like to run the camp in partnership with Birnie. Birnie was keen to be sole owner and creator of his vision for a camp and so wrote this back to Mr. Kingsmill. For a long time no more was heard from Mr. Kingsmill and Birnie's vision seemed more and more a remote dream. And then one day, Birnie received a letter from Mr. Kingsmill from Mexico where he was  living telling Birnie that he had fallen in love with a Mexican girl called Carmelita whom he wanted to marry.

  Now Carmelita was happy to marry Mr. Kingsmill but her wedding present was to be an English grand piano with music lessons- and Mr. Kingsmill mentioned this to Birnie as Mr. Kingsmill did not have the capabilities to get this piano for his Carmelita.Soon there after, Birnie arranged for a piano to be shipped from England,piano lessons were arranged all in exchange for 150 amazing acres of land in the Georgian Bay!

  And so for the price of a piano and piano lessons and a girl called Carmelita ,Hurontario became a camp now enjoying its 71st summer in the Bay. 

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