Camp Kawartha is a year-round learning center dedicated to promoting leadership, environmental awareness, and outdoor education.

Summer Camp Programs:

* Day camp (ages 5-8),
* 3-day/2-night Intro to Camp (ages 7-12)
* 4-day/3 night Nature Camp (ages 7-14),
* 1-week and 2-week Residential Camp (ages 8-14),
* 1-week Junior Canoe Trip (one trip for ages 10-11 & one trip for ages 12-13)
* 2-week Wilderness Canoe Trip (ages 14-16, one trip for males and one trip for females),
* 2-week Challenge and Adventure Program (ages 14-16),
* 2-week Wilderness Living Skills (ages 15-17)
* 3-week Pre-Leadership Camp (ages 13-14),
* 4-week Counsellor Skills Development (ages 15-16),
* 4-week Wilderness Counsellor Skills Development (ages 15-16),
* 4-week Leader in Training (ages 16-17),
* 4-week Wilderness Leader in Training (ages 16-17)

Campers aged 8 to 14 can choose a 1 week session for a taste of camp life. Or they can select our 2 week session in order to allow them more time to develop and refine skills, and to participate in a broader range of activities.

1-week Sessions

A one week session is a great introduction to the Camp Kawartha environment and a great way to experience a bit of everything. Campers get the opportunity to participate and learn skills in all camp activities. The days are highlighted by memorable evening programs, and a weekly theme day. The session ends with a banquet, our traditional candle lighting ceremony, and the final slide show!

2-week Sessions

A two week session offers a more intense experience. Campers and staff have a greater opportunity to nurture relationships and partake in the great lessons that camp has to offer. More diverse programming is available as campers select four areas of interest and spend each morning concentrating on two of their choices . Campers work to achieve Camp Kawartha levels and are given awards at the end of the session. There are a wider range of evening programs and theme days, and the opportunity to participate in clubs and camp projects. All campers participate in an overnight trip – from the youngest cabin who travel across the road to our Range site to the oldest cabin who participate in a 3-day canoe trip in the Kawartha Highlands. The values of nature and teamwork are inculcated in the actions of our trippers and staff. On top of a fun and unforgettable experience, the session supports camper development and leads them on the path of leadership. Campers are presented with a session photo at the end of the two weeks to remember their camp experience.

Fostering a Sense of Community:

Our goal is to create a supportive community which recognizes and values every child. Camp Kawartha accepts only 125 regular campers, cared for by 50 staff members. Our intimate size allows us to build a very close knit community. The staff know the campers by name, and they take the time to provide individual attention to each child.

Fostering Environmental Awareness:

For ten months out of the year, we operate as an environmental education centre, teaching school children about natural history, habitat protection and the importance of wildlife. For us, environmental awareness is an ethic we incorporate into everything we do, from the programs we offer to the food we serve and the way we maintain our facility. Our straw bale Rotary Hall, wind turbine and solar greenhouse are part of our efforts to move the camp towards sustainable living practices. We strive to live what we teach.

Wendigo is a small canoe tripping outpost for older boys (12-16), with a base camp located on Cache Lake inside Algonquin Provincial Park. Algonquin offers 3000 square miles of wilderness lakes and forests--ideal for canoe tripping. Wendigo is a great adventure!

Utilizing canoe trips and other outdoors activities, PaddleFoot introduces the Canadian wilderness to people from around the world.

*Youth programs for people ages 9 - 21 take in flatwater canoeing, whitewater canoeing, hiking and kayaking.

*Canoe trips for your family provide quality time. Be a part of each others lives!

*Adult and group canoe trips stretch out through Eastern Canada.

*First Aid and Rescue Certification courses available in the spring, and custom courses can be booked.

*Custom canoe, hiking, and shuttle services.

BB Camp is located on Town Island on Lake of the Woods, in Kenora, Ontario, approximately 2 1/2 hours east of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The Camp offers a variety of traditional camp program in a beautiful outdoor wilderness settings within an enriched Jewish environment. The camp is an accredited member of the Manitoba Camping Association and associated with the JCC movement. It is now entering its 56th season of operation. The Camp attracts campers from Manitoba, and from other Canadian and US cities. There is approximately 85 states from Canada, US and from Israel working at BB Camp. Staff to camper ratios are small to ensure campers are well supervised and receive ongoing attention. BB Camp offers unique wilderness four week canoe trips for its 15 year old campers and a six week leadership training program for its 16 year old campers. Program sessions range from four days to three weeks for campers between the ages of eight - 14 years. The Camp also operates a non-denominational day camp program for 4 - 12 year olds. There are six sessions with a choice of three days or five days. Registration is now open. Limited spots remaining in some sessions.