ALGONQUIN DEFINING MOMENTS

Episode 67: Childrens' Camp Founders


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Episode 67: Childrens' Camp Founders 

In this episode I share profiles of many of the founders of the key childrens’ camps in Algonquin Park including Fanny Case from Camp Northway and Wendigo on Cache Lake, Franklin Gray, William Bennett and Herman Norton from Camp Pathfinder on Source Lake, Taylor and Ethel Statten from Camp Ahmek and Camp Wapomeo on Canoe Lake, Mary Jean Hamilton from Camp Tanamakoon on Lake Tanamakoon, Lillian Kates  from Camp Arrohon on TeePee Lake and Lou Handler and Omer Stringer from Camp Tamakwa on South Tea Lake.

Key References include:

  • Summer Camp, Great Camps of Algonquin Park by Liz Lundell, Beverley Bailey, John Taylor and Robbie Sprules;
  • Taylor Statten A Biography by C. A. M. Edwards,
  • Talks to Counselors by Hedley S. Dimock and Taylor Statten,
  • The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism and Ontario Summer Camps 1920-1955 by Sharon Wall and
  • A History of the Taylor Statten Camps 1985 Masters Thesis by Donald Alexander Burry
  • The-South-Tea-Echo-Issue-21-Summer-2023-Version-for-Tamakwa-website
  • Camp Wabuno Brochure provided by Elizabeth Otto 
  • The musical interlude is called Time Stands Still from Dan Gibson’s Solitudes Lakeside Retreat CD. It is brought to you with the approval of Digital Funding LLC. Solitudes music can be found wherever you get your music streaming.

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