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The CCA/ACC is delighted to announce the final phase of the Canadian Summer Camp Research Project for 2012. We ask all camp directors to please contact your camper families and encourage them to take part in the University of Waterloo’s … Continue reading →

Every camp in Canada, including those that participated in previous summers, is invited to plant trees on their property with their campers this summer. Andrea Koehle Jones, Executive Director of the Charitree Foundation, will arrange delivery of free seedlings to … Continue reading →

If you are one of the 132 camps that has already completed the 2012 CCA/ACC Business Survey for fiscal year 2011- THANKS!  If not, please take a few minutes before March 31 to go online and answer the five questions … Continue reading →

For each Criminal Record Check ordered through BackCheck, TELUS will give $5.00 to the Provincial Camping Association to help send underprivileged or special needs children to camp.  This gift is in addition to the $2.00 that BackCheck will donate to … Continue reading →

The following remarks delivered by Jane McCutcheon describe Jeff Bradshaw’s exceptional contribution to camping – provincially, nationally and internationally. You have been the President of CCA/ACC for the past 4 years… You have sat as a member of the Steering … Continue reading →

Camp Nursing – Circles of Care by Mary Casey (BScN, PHN, CPHAdmin.), is an overview of the multi-facetted job of the nurse at camp and presents principles that are applicable to all health professionals and to camps with varying combinations … Continue reading →

From now until March 15th, 2012 the CCA/ACC is once again collecting data on the current fiscally related trends of camps across Canada. Last year’s information has been very useful in responding to media, government and each other with respect … Continue reading →

Dr. Stephen Fine’s National Research Committee Report, which is available in the Research Section of the CCA/ACC Website, summarizes several current camping research projects. Please click here to review Dr. Fine’s Report.Le rapport du comité de recherche nationale du Dr … Continue reading →

This past September, 53 year-old Ian Fowler was diagnosed with cancer, and he passed away at The Moncton Hospital on November 5, 2011. Ian was a good friend of many folks in OCA. In the 1980s and 1990s when the … Continue reading →

Finally, we have documented proof of a belief that camp directors have held since organized camping started in Canada over one hundred years ago – camp does have a positive influence in the growth and development of young people. The … Continue reading →