Training Camp Details

Supervision:

Coaches will ensure that all participants return from the training exercises and that all beginners and younger kids will not be out in the forest on their own. However, kids will not be supervised other than this. Kids 12 and under must have a supervising adult on site at all times (although this could be another parent).

Accommodations:

Participants are on their own for accommodations. Camping at Mansfield on Sunday night is encouraged simply to allow for the kids to have more time together, but not at all required. Registration fees do not include camping on Sunday night.

Camping at Mansfield must be booked separately. Please note that if you are camping during the weekend we may need to relocate closer to the river (~500m) to make room for summer camp participants arriving on Monday morning.

Book Mansfield Camping

Meals:

Registration fees include the following meals:

• supper on Sunday evening (likely pizza)

• lunch on Monday (likely sandwiches)

• lunch on Tuesday (Queens U cafeteria)

Volunteers:

Please let Cherie know if you are interested in:

• helping with food (ordering, picking up, or serving a group meal)

• leading a small group during the Mansfield training session & Queens training session

• tagging along with a small group of younger kids during the Mansfield training session
  

Registration:

$35 All Sessions - Mansfield & Kingston

$20 Mansfield Only

$20 Kingston Only

(The camp is subsidized by Orienteering Canada.)

Deadline: July 15, 2024 (email if you are after this date to request entry)

Questions:

Email cherie@ottawaoc.ca.

Kingston Pen Tour

After racing through the Pen on Tuesday, join us on Wednesday afternoon for a 1.5 hour guided tour of the Pen to learn about the long history, infamous inmates and amazing escapes that made this maximum-security institution notorious!

The Kingston Penitentiary, constructed in 1833-34, housed inmates continuously from 1835 to 2013, and is now a popular attraction with visitors to Kingston. The Pen covers over 21 acres on the shore of Lake Ontario. At the beginning, cells measured 2.4ft (0.73m) wide by 8ft (2.4m) deep by 6.7ft (2m) high and the site was surrounded by a 12ft (3.6m) high wooden picket fence. Even though the facilities were periodically expanded and upgraded, the bleak living conditions led to three major riots and several amazing escapes over the years. Many of Canada's most notorious inmates have been held at Kingston Penitentiary. Join us on a special guided tour for NAOC participants to learn their stories.

Date: Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Time: Guided Tours from 4 to 7pm (approximately)

Duration: 90 minutes each

Size: ~20 in each tour group

Cost: $38 per person (sorry, same cost for adults and youth)

Tickets: Advance sales only. Tickets can be ordered on the NAOC-COC event registration page or purchased through the Shop. Deadline July 30 or ask at the Information Desk for any last minute tickets.

If you have a ticket, we will be meeting at 16:00 at the main entrance to the Pen on King Street West, where the Tours start. We will be divided into smaller groups of 10 to 20 people, with a group starting their tour every 5 to 10 minutes. The tour lasts approximately 90 minutes.

Land Acknowledgement

The Ottawa region including Calabogie are located on the traditional unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin People. The Kingston region is located on the traditional homeland of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat. Dufferin County including the Mansfield Outdoor Centre is located on the traditional territory and ancestral lands of the Tionontati (Petun), Attawandaron (Neutral), Haudenosaunee (Six Nations), and Anishinaabe peoples.

These Indigenous nations have inhabited and cared for these lands for millennia, and their way of life, culture and presence have nurtured and continue to nurture these lands today. We honour these lands and their Indigenous stewards, past and present. We thank them for their stewardship of the land and pledge to be respectful and grateful for the bounty of this land on which we all live, work, play and study.