Category Archives: Stories
Pep’s Story
“My first recollection of the boys’ camp dining hall and kitchen was in the early 1950s at a winter camp. We slept in the lodge and ate in the kitchen – the dining hall had NO heat. I came early the following summer and helped nail the siding on the kitchen/dining hall. My fondest memories […]
Gel’s Story
“Rrrrrrright! The banging of spoon on plates. The scraping of chairs. A sudden silence replacing the cacophony of boyhood chatter in a Clearwater lake dining hall. A respectful silence. An anticipated silence. “Rrrrrrright!” delivered with crisp, Australian-rolled “r”s. It signaled the end of breakfast, the beginning of a new day and Cobber’s daily breakfast talk. […]
Geoff’s Story
“I was studying at the University of Toronto and would spend my summers on the farm until it was time to trip up to camp. I was there for the raising of the trusses of the roof. My claim to fame was that I laid a good part of the floor and most of the […]
Doug’s Story
“In 1995 I was dating my future wife, Tammy and she was spending the summer working at OPC Boys Camp as the camp nurse. After a few weeks I went up to camp for a visit, and accompanied her to breakfast. Never having been to camp myself I had no idea what was awaiting in […]
A Story From Stoked
“It’s hard to put into words the magic that happens in the dining hall. From the first night of pre-camp reconnecting with old faces, and welcoming new, to the memories of learning and teaching God’s love through service and conversation. The dining hall was a part of so many memories, such as campers and staff […]
Knobby’s Story
“My first year at camp was 1948 or 1949. At that time a large tent on a platform was used for dining. During the a summer in the 1950’s a day before camp opened a big wind storm came through and knocked the tent down and ripped it badly and of course dropped it on […]
Doreen’s Story
“I have been working at camp as a nurse for many years. One summer when I was a camp nurse at Girls camp, I visited our son who was a camper at Boys camp. We were eating lunch in the dining hall and the music played for an announcement by the Boys camp nurse (the […]