Camp Davern is a YWCA summer camp for girls 6–16 years old located near Maberly, Ontario, Canada, 100 kilometers west of Ottawa.
The camp has been in continuous operation since 1946, and now has some third-generation campers whose mothers and grandmothers also attended. Originally, a Canadian Pacific Railway train brought campers from Ottawa, stopping on the rail line just north of the camp to let them off. Today, campers travel from Ottawa on chartered buses.
Famous quotes containing the word camp:
“Among the interesting thing in camp are the boys. You recollect the boy in Captain McIlrath’s company; we have another like unto him in Captain Woodward’s. He ran away from Norwalk to Camp Dennison; went into the Fifth, then into the Guthries, and as we passed their camp, he was pleased with us, and now is “a boy of the Twenty-third.” He drills, plays officer, soldier, or errand boy, and is a curiosity in camp.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)