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The Outdoor Centre

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The Quebec Lodge Outdoor Centre, offering summer programs since 2016, is a secular camp with charitable status for the purposes of education.  That status was granted to the camp by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2015.  The camp program emphasizes active, hands-on, small-group Environmental Education and Healthy Living Skills Education.  

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From 1943 until its closure in 2005, Quebec Lodge was an Anglican church camp that welcomed campers of all backgrounds.  After a period of summer camping in Leeds, Quebec, Bishop Philip Carrington, in 1943, led the establishment of the Lake Massawippi camp at a site in North Hatley.  In the early 1950s, the camp moved halfway down the east side of the lake where hundreds of children enjoyed their summers year after year.

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Unfortunately financial difficulties forced the Diocese of Quebec to close the camp and sell a portion of the property. Following the closure of the camp, the Quebec Lodge Foundation, composed of a number of concerned local citizens and several former campers, worked for many years to obtain a new charitable status as a secular, educational camp and to reestablish the camp on the still significant remaining property. 

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The Quebec Lodge Foundation

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Foundation Board Members: Ruth Sheeran (President), Tom Matthews (Vice-President), Kylie Côté (Treasurer), Johanne D'Iorio (Secretary), Avril Aitken, Sarah Heath, John Moses, Peter Provencher, Stephen Stafford, Andrew Wanka, Brian Wharry (ex officio). 

Camp Management Committee
: Avril Aitken, Shanna Bernier, Karen Dymond, Wendy King, Lorne Lemarquand, Tom Matthews, Melanie Roarke (ex officio), Ruth Sheeran (ex officio), Brian Wharry (ex officio)

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Foundation Members: Nils Bodtker, William Crooks, John Hoblyn, Kelly Hurdle, Bill Letteney, David Oliver, James Oliver, Duncan Plaunt, Tom Redpath.

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Staff: Brian Wharry (Director), Melanie Roarke (Financial Administrator).

Recent History

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