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| founders = | extinction = | type = Residential summer camp for boys | location = Big Doe Lake, Ontario, Canada | coords = | services = Summer camp for Campers (ages 7-14) CITs (ages 15-16) | membership = 70 campers per session | leader_title = | leader_name = | leader_title2 = | leader_name2 = | website = (Alumni Facebook Group ) | footnotes = }} Big Doe Camp was a boys' residential summer camp located on Big Doe Lake not far from the village of Burk's Falls, Ontario.〔Boys' Camp. ''Toronto Star'', (1947, June 4) page 31〕〔(Camp Channel )〕 ==Background== The camp was founded in 1946 by Aubrey and Marjorie Rhamey and operated from its location on Big Doe Lake for more than 50 years. Big Doe Camp was an accredited member of the Ontario Camping Association and the Canadian Camping Association by its affiliation with the Ontario Camping Association.〔(Trent University Archives - Ontario Camping Association Fonds )〕 The summer camping season at Big Doe was broken down into sessions where campers could attend for two, four, or six weeks at a time. Big Doe often hosted other entities such as sports camps or religious camps during the last two weeks of August in which groups would come in to use the facilities after the regular camping season had concluded. The Camp was operated for more than merely commercial purposes. Aubrey and Marjorie aimed to break even every summer, though quite often they didn't even do that. It was a family tradition, family run operation about giving something back to the community and watching the boys' grow into young men.〔Generations of boys were changed by Big Doe Lake camp. ''Toronto Star'' (1975, April 1) Page E1〕 During the prime years of operation, Aubrey and Marjorie Rhamey had a tough time trying to keep a balance between bringing in new younger campers and allowing the older campers to keep returning every year. They just didn't have the space for everyone that wanted to attended and were at times forced to turn boys away. But even with that pressure, they also kept a few spaces for boys from the Children's Aid Society who were allowed to attend camp for free. These boys were never grouped together, singled out, or identified.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Big Doe Camp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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