Camp Northway/ Wendigo

Type	Overnight ( Summer Camp)
Categories	Traditional
Age (Gender)	7 to 16 (Coed)
Cost	$735 to $799 /week
Capacity	51

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Locations: Algonquin Park;

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Northway, Canada's oldest summer camp for girls, founded in 1906, is located on a beautiful peninsula inside Algonquin Park. Northway offers traditional activities in a wilderness setting. Wendigo, also in Algonquin, is a small canoe-tripping camp for older boys. Wendigo is a great adventure! Northway and Wendigo offer 13-day, 3&1/2-week and 7-week sessions.

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CAMP SPECIALTIES
Wilderness Out Tripping	Canoeing
EDUCATION
Environment
SPORTS & ACTIVITIES
Canoeing	Kayaking/Sea Kayaking	Mountain Biking
Sailing/Marine Skills	Swimming
ARTS/DANCE/MUSIC
Arts & Crafts
ADVENTURE & LEADERSHIP
Hiking	Wilderness Out Tripping	Outdoor Living
CAMP FACILITIES
Lake

Camp Birthday

On the last night of camp, Camp Birthday celebrates another wonderful summer at Northway. Campers and staff enter the dining hall under an archway of paddles decorated and ...

Drama--Alice in Wonderland

Our talented counsellors produce 2 full musicals each summer. Impromptu playlets, one-act plays and skits are also a part of the drama program. The girls use their ...

Welcoming Home Trips

Canoe trips are the most special and loved of all activities. Over the decades that campers have been singing "Au Large Trippers" to each trip as they leave ...

Canoe Restoration

Each summer campers have the opportunity to assist Jim Spencer, Director of Camp Wendigo and a local canoe builder, in the restoration of a wood-canvas canoe. Girls help ...

Annual Visitors

"The year I turned 14 my mother suggested that we think about Camp Northway for the summer. I knew that this was a place of great importance to ...

Camp Memories

"The faint breakfast call rings in my ears as I stumble to the dining hall. I smile broadly as I see pancakes sitting at each wooden table. ...

A Parent's Perspective

"When I came back to camp after 30 years to visit my daughter there, it was just the same as when I was there in the 50's: no ...

Thoughts on Summer

"Relaxing in wildlife, swimming, canoeing, kayaking, and sailing is what we do at Northway. With about 50 campers, a good small number, I know almost everyone in camp. ...


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	Brookes or Joan Prewitt

	Box 10003 Huntsville, Algonquin Park, Ontario, P1H 2G7, P1H 2G7 294 Regent St., Box 1184, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, L0S 1J0
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