Moorelands Camp
Learn More About Camp
Located approximately 2½ hours north of Toronto in a beautiful, natural setting with beaches and forests.
High School Programs
Moorelands Camp offers two advanced leadership programs for high school students: LEDGE (grade 9) and STEP (grade 10).
Work at Camp
Our staff members are positive, enthusiastic team players who put the needs of others before their own.
Moorelands Camp is a leadership development program for children and youth.
We offer a meaningful program focused on developing skills. Through experience-based learning and fun activities, campers learn how to apply the Moorelands Kids Habits & Qualities to their everyday lives. Our goal is for each camper to return to the city with the skills to be a leader in their home, school and community.
Moorelands Camp puts the fun back into the summer with engaging play, new skills and tools to strengthen kids’ well-being.
Made Positive Connections
85% of campers said they made positive connections with peers at camp.
More Respectful
92% of campers reported they were more respectful after participating in Moorelands Camp in 2025.
Improved Teamwork
89% of campers reported they improved their teamwork skills at Moorelands Camp in 2025.
Improved Communication
89% of campers said they improved their listening and communication skills at Moorelands Camp in 2025.
Moorelands Camp = High Quality & Affordable
All spots at Moorelands Camp qualify for financial assistance based on net income and family size. To learn more, click here!
For Kids from all across Ontario, it’s a week away from the city in a safe, caring, positive environment focusing on new friends, character and leadership development, and having FUN! Fees are calculated based on a sliding scale geared to income.
“We are learning how to work as a team and to be successful… That’s why Moorelands matters!”
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The history of Indigenous Connections with Kawagama Lake
Before the arrival of Europeans, the Anishinaabe and Huron-Wendat were the main occupants of the areas around Kawagama Lake. The Anishinaabe are also known as the Ojibwe or anglicized as Chippewa. The term Anishinaabe does not refer to just the Ojibwe people but is a collective term that refers to the group of culturally related Indigenous peoples who share related Algonquian languages, and have specific historical ties to the Ojibwe, the Potawatomi, and the Odawa peoples.
The area around Kawagama Lake is subject to various treaties including the Robinson-Huron Treaty of 1850 and the Williams Treaties of 1923 that preserve Indigenous territory rights.
For the Anishinaabe people, Lake Superior is “Gichigamiing”- the “great water” or “sea.” For the Anishinaabe, water and Gichigamiing have always held importance. The lakes and water were key for transportation in birch bark canoes that were specifically designed for navigation in the lakes. Fishing was more important than hunting and there was an abundance of fish such as pike, sturgeon, and whitefish in the rushing, cold waters. This fishing abundance, and the large quantities of freshwater, keep the Kawagama Lake region quite significant to many peoples past and present.
Freshwater was key for agriculture and the growth of pumpkins, squash, and corn as well as manoomin, a wild rice that grows on water.
For the Anishinaabek, Mushkegowuk and Onkwehonwe in Ontario, water is the bringer of life as women bring babies into the world carried on by the breaking of the water. The Anishinaabek believe in sharing common ownership and responsibility for water and in using Anishinabek traditional knowledge to move towards sustainable management of water.
We at Moorelands Kids recognize the responsibility to be good stewards and take care of our water resources around Kawagama Lake that is made clear in Indigenous teachings. We acknowledge the Indigenous water declaration and its teachings:
“Our responsibility is to the future generations – for those children yet unborn…”
Assembly of first nations. (2008). “Water Declaration of the Anishinaabek, Mushkegowuk and Onkwehonwe.” Toronto, Ontario: 1–6.
To learn more about Indigenous territories worldwide, and to acknowledge the Indigenous history of the land on which you stand, check out this interactive map.
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