History
Camp Massad was founded in 1947 by Rabbi Aron Horowitz, along with Isaac Gold, the first President of the Camp. Leon Kronitz, who later served as its director, and Chaim Maizel also helped found the camp. Having more than 80,000 Jews living in Montreal, and an increasing number of Jews in Canada, the Jewish community felt a need to create a Jewish summer camp, which were very rare at the time. Camp Massad was established as Massad Alef, with Massad Bet being in Ontario and Massad Gimmel in Winnipeg as a part of the Keren Hatarbut movement for the dissemination of Hebrew culture.
The camp was larger in the 1970s and 1980s, but the camp has run a smaller program since then. At its peak Massad had nearly 400 campers.
The current Camp Director is Stuart Guttman.
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