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Columnist Andrew Caddell is pictured with cartoonist Terry Mosher and the 'Pip' Award at Kamp Kanawana. For those who benefit from camp, one of the great legacies is a belief we should act 'not for ourselves alone,' writes Caddell. Photograph courtesy of Andrew Caddell

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

August 10, 2022

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—I have always been a believer in the value of summer camp. I was a camper in the 1960s at Canada’s oldest overnight camp, the Montreal YMCA’s Kamp Kanawana. The camp was founded in 1894 in the Laurentians and has been on the same campsite near Saint Sauveur, Que., for more tha...

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