Des Grèves Vacation Camp
The Colonie de vacances des Grèves (English: "Des Grèves Vacation Camp"), established in 1912, is the oldest vacation camp still in operation in Quebec and French-Canada.Book "L'oeuvre de vacances des Grèves au Cap de la Victoire pour les écoliers de Montréal” (The Grèves au Cap de la Victoire holiday work for Montreal schoolchildren), 1916, by Édouard Gouin, priest of Saint-Sulpice.Article “900 enfants par jour sont accueillis à la Colonie des Grèves” (900 children per day are welcomed at the Colonie des Grèves), newspaper La Seigneurie, May 17 to 23, 1970, p. 7. Today, this colony is renowned as the largest French-speaking summer camp still in operation in North America. This family and children's holiday camp is located at Cap de la Victoire, on the south-eastern shore of the St. Lawrence River, in the First Concession, in the town of Contrecoeur, in the regional county municipality (MRC) of Marguerite-D'Youville Regional County Municipality, in the administrati ...
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