Camp Quin-Mo-Lac
336 Franks Rd. K0K3J0 Tweed, ON, Canada

This is the story of Quin-Mo-Lac’s geography as it formed over 750 million years. (We’re the red dot) Fun fact: Our site straddles the Canadian Shield, with our main camp at the bottom of a limestone ridge and Williams Island being granite. There is also a rumour on Moira Lake that gold exists on The Island! We want to hear your stories too! The Quin-Mo-Lac Alumni Committee is in the process of creating an annual email newsletter leading up to a special 75th anniversary... book for 2025. If you have pictures, memories, family history or testimonials to share, please email us: [email protected] Visit www.quin-mo-lac.org/alumni-supporters to fill out a short questionnaire and receive our annual email newsletter. This will be a great way to share our stories and keep you informed on everything QML! www.dinosaurpictures.org www.googleearth.com www.epidemicsound.com Music by Spirit of Our Dreams: Beyond Gravity

1 MONTH LEFT to achieve our fundraising goal of $92,000! We are so grateful to have such generous and motivated supporters in our wings to help QML get through a challenging year. The Magic Penny team fundraising challenge has been a lot of fun and we’re excited to have raised $75,828.25 together so far! Visit the link below to check out the teams and support your crew. Or, you can donate as an individual too! https://www.canadahelps.org//camp/p2p/magicpennychallenge/

Merry Christmas everyone! We hope you’re having a lovely holiday season. We are feeling very blessed this year to have such wonderful people looking out for QML. Our Christmas Vespers was the best way to get in the spirit, with over 100 people joining in over Zoom! We hope you saw some familiar faces and enjoyed the event led by our Board Program Committee. Thank you to everyone who sent in videos for the coffee house, it was SO special! We were glad to have an opportunit...y to thank our Magic Penny Fundraisers for helping us get through a very difficult year. Together, we have raised $70,300.40 towards our $92,000.00 goal! The Alumni Committee has extended the deadline to February 14, 2021 and there will be a Magic Penny plaque in the Dining Hall to recognize our teams. We have been amazed by your creativity and we are so grateful for you all. A very special thank you is extended to our Office Administrator, Beth McKinney, for everything she did in 2020 to keep us running smooth and the special projects she takes on. For example, she was instrumental in setting up the Magic Penny ‘team challenge’ style campaign, painting the kitchen, and coordinating our summer Tuck order. Her love for QML is obvious in everything she does! We would also like to thank our Spring team and current QMLer’s for all of your support this year. We missed you all and can’t wait for you to return! Stay tuned toward the end of January for more updates regarding our plans for 2021. Have a great Christmas and see you in the new year!

Join us for a very special QML Christmas (Zoom) Vespers TONIGHT (December 20, 2020) at 7:00 p.m. presented by our Program Committee and featuring music by former QML Music Directors, Emily Fennell (www.themissemily.com) and Jenn Muir! We are very excited to share video submissions from the QML community too! We will also recognize our Magic Penny Fundraisers who have raised over $62,000 toward our $92,000 goal. We are so appreciative to everyone who has formed a team, donat...ed to a team, coordinated a drive, collected change, organized yard sales and contributed proceeds to help us get through a very difficult season. We are feeling very supported and our community will continue to thrive because of you! We would LOVE to see our camper families, staff, alumni and supporters tuned in to share a unique moment of camp connection. A link is available in our bio and on our website. (www.quin-mo-lac.org/alumni-supporters)

Send this to someone who you remember performing on the QML stage and encourage them to submit a video! We are hosting a special QML Christmas (Zoom) Vespers on December 20, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. and we would like to feature your talents too! Send us a video of your camp or Christmas performance through dropbox and it could be featured after our Vespers. Please indicate how you are connected to Quin-Mo-Lac so we can give you a proper introduction. The deadline for submissions... is Wednesday, December 16. You can email us at: [email protected] if you have questions about how to submit your performance to us at camp. We will also recognize our Magic Penny Fundraisers who have raised over $57,000 toward our $92,000 goal! We are so appreciative to everyone who has formed a team, donated to a team, coordinated a drive, collected change, organized yard sales and contributed proceeds to help us get through a very difficult season. We are feeling very supported and our community will continue to thrive because of you!

Join us for a very special QML Christmas (Zoom) Vespers on Sunday December 20, at 7:00 p.m. presented by our Program Committee and featuring music by former QML Music Director, Emily Fennell (@themissemily)!We would LOVE to see our camper families, staff, alumni and supporters tuned in to share a unique moment of camp connection. Make a note in your calendar and a link will be available on our website. (www.quin-mo-lac.org/alumni-supporters) We would also like to featur...e your talents, so send us a video of your camp or Christmas performance through dropbox and it could be featured after our Vespers too! Please indicate how you are connected to Quin-Mo-Lac so we can give you a proper introduction. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, December 16. You can email us: [email protected] Contact us if you have questions about how to submit your performance. We will also recognize our Magic Penny Fundraisers who have raised over $50,000 toward our $92,000 goal! We are so appreciative to everyone who has formed a team, donated to a team, coordinated a drive, collected change, organized yard sales and contributed proceeds to help us get through a very difficult season. We are feeling very supported and our community will continue to thrive because of you!

Since we announced our target of $205,000 for the Magic Penny campaign, we have been looking for ways to further reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the financial health of the camp. Over the summer months, we have applied for and received funds from an insurance claim and have received money from church closures and fundraising activities. As a result, our target has been reduced from $205,000 to $92,000 for the 2020 camp season. To date, our Magic Penny campaign has raised $37...,930 towards the $92,000 target, leaving us with $54,070 left to go! We are so thankful for the contributions and the energy you put into your team fundraisers. We are clearly closing the gap on this year’s operating deficit but our board of directors will be looking ahead later this fall to make some decisions on what camp might look like in 2021. Check out the Magic Penny website to make a contribution, join a fundraising team, or start a team of your own! https://www.canadahelps.org//camp-/p2p/magicpennychallenge

We’re featuring a decade each ‘Coed’ this summer to celebrate our 70th anniversary theme: Building a Legacy. This week... 2010-2019! Our most recent QML era has faced one of the most challenging tests of any generation: technology and social media. Throughout this decade our Staff was diligent to make sure that the latest online pressures and distractions didn’t impact our camp community. Being sensible online and keeping devices out of camp became the norm and we maintain...ed our QML energy by being phone-free. In 2010, we installed a playground for the youngest campers and built a new Tripper Cabin. Since then, Bill Chambers has renovated much of camp and rebuilt many decks. After 70 years, things start to show their age! We built a new staff cabin & called it 'The Rock', purchased a new dock, enlarged the Dining Hall walk-in fridge, moved the Tripper Room to the kitchen foyer, and installed a new Dining Hall floor. All of this was completed with the help of donations and careful financial planning from our Board of Directors. In 2016, Rosanne White retired after 34 years. She began her office responsibilities with a typewriter and hand written notes and evolved with the latest technologies through the 1980's to 2000's. She also managed the kitchen and developed an incredible menu. Rosanne was the ultimate background operator and Quin-Mo-Lac's longest running employee. So, we were obviously pleased when Beth McKinney returned to Quin-Mo-Lac to replace Rosanne as our Office Administrator! Beth is a life-long QML'er having progressed through the staff ranks to Assistant Director in 1989/90 and was one of our first Low-Ropes 'Initiatives' course instructors! She went on to be the Camp Director at Kasota East Camp in Alberta. On her return to Ontario, we always looked forward to her visits as Chaplain. We are so glad to have her back with us! This decade finished with the rebuilding of a new Dining Hall deck, a huge project completed with the help of the Parrott Foundation in Belleville. We are excited about the potential that this space will have as an outdoor, spacious, open-air dining area.

The TUCK SHOP PREORDER is LIVE on our website until AUGUST 29! (http://quin-mo-lac.org/tuck-shop) We are very excited about our items this year. Please read the size charts for each item to ensure you are ordering the right clothing. We won’t have extra items on hand for exchanges. Just like at the Tuck Shop, taxes are included! Our 2020 tee is a stunning, classic design on purple heather with blue, red and white print. The sweater is a special anniversary item which f...eatures: Celebrating 70 Years. It is green with gold and white print. We have a unique archive item illustrated by David Spivey: Camping at Quin-Mo-Lac is a hoot! It is a graphite heather tee with black print. A brand new (old) logo from the 1960’s is being used for the first time ever on our long sleeve tee! It is a sapphire blue shirt with white print. There are also navy blue bandanas and masks available! Let us know if you have any questions, and enjoy shopping for some comfort clothes at the QML Tuck Shop!

Jodi and Mark Browning performing Abbott & Costello’s Who’s On First at a QML campfire. We are SO glad this entire performance is captured, it’s a gem!

The TUCK SHOP PREORDER is LIVE on our website until AUGUST 29! (http://quin-mo-lac.org/tuck-shop) We are very excited about our items this year. Please read the size charts for each item to ensure you are ordering the right clothing. We won’t have extra items on hand for exchanges. Just like at the Tuck Shop, taxes are included! Our 2020 tee is a stunning, classic design on purple heather with blue, red and white print. The sweater is a special anniversary item which f...eatures: Celebrating 70 Years. It is green with gold and white print. We have a unique archive item illustrated by David Spivey: Camping at Quin-Mo-Lac is a hoot! It is a graphite heather tee with black print. A brand new (old) logo from the 1960’s is being used for the first time ever on our long sleeve tee! It is a sapphire blue shirt with white print. There are also navy blue bandanas and masks available! Let us know if you have any questions, and enjoy shopping for some comfort clothes at the QML Tuck Shop!

We found this interview on a VHS tape from 1988, featuring camp life, testimonials and the beginnings of Wilderness Crew. Enjoy! *The Bog is a small marsh on the back 100 acres of our property.

We have an incredible photo set from 1986 that we're excited to share. Visit our website to see our albums in better quality and to fill out our Alumni Survey so we can stay in touch. *We have uploaded extended sets for each decade posted so far!* We hope you're enjoying this 70th Anniversary 'Decades' series as much as we are! http://quin-mo-lac.org/alumni-supporters

QML Masks for Sale: $10 each! Our sincere thanks to Robbie Chapman & Susan Sullivan who are long-time QMLer’s and have generously handmade a limited number of navy blue masks in both adult and youth sizes to promote camp and help keep us safe. Also available is a ’Canadiana’ design in recognition of their quilting guild, ‘Quilts of Valour’. Its mission is to ensure that past and present Canadian Forces members are recognized for their service through the presentation of quil...ts to comfort them. These masks are in adult size only. Please contact us to confirm we still have stock ([email protected]) then send an email transfer or a cheque to QML, 336 Franks Rd. Tweed, ON K0K 3J0. Your order will be mailed directly to you. Stay tuned for more QML tuck items coming soon!

Quin-Mo-Lac will have an operating deficit of $205,000.00 this year, but we have an exciting new way to fundraise ‘Competitive fundraising’ is a way for ‘Teams’ of friends to raise money for QML! We need your help, so reach out to your camp pals, come up with a team name and sign up for the ‘MAGIC PENNY’ QML Fundraising Challenge! - SIGN UP YOUR TEAM AT: https://www.canadahelps.org//camp/p2p/magicpennychallenge/... CREATE A TEAM NAME THAT REMINDS YOU OF QML. SHARE YOUR TEAM FUNDRAISER ONLINE AND RAISE MONEY IN FUN WAYS! VIEW THE LEADERBOARD OR CHECK OUT THE CUMULATIVE TOTAL. INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS ARE APPRECIATED TOO! #challengechallengechallenge

We will be featuring each QML decade throughout this summer to celebrate our 70th anniversary theme: Building a Legacy. Let's start with 1950-59! Quin-Mo-Lac’s roots began in Stirling Ontario at a camp called Oak Lake. In the late 1940’s after many years of world war strife, Christian camping emerged to spread a message of peace, love and unity. A group at Oak Lake realized their site wasn’t big enough for their vision, and a quest to find a new property began. Lloyd S...horten and Don Williams ventured out on Moira lake to do some scouting, the weather got rough, and when their canoe overturned near Crystal Beach, they could see their dream property from across the lake. When they offered to buy the farm land, the owner said that he would only sell it to be used for a good purpose. Groups of volunteers began to build up our site, starting with the Dining Hall. The property committee presented plans to build V shaped cabins so they would have two walls with views of the lake. Supplies were purchased from the war assets including 175 bunk beds and 1 large camp stove. In 1950, we were declared Quin-Mo-Lac and a community began to grow. In the beginning, each week was coordinated by a different director, with a different staff to lead their own sessions of campers who attended summer schools and leadership camps. Camper rent was $0.40 a day! One of the first living quarters at QML was a TTC car from Toronto. As the story goes, 2 of these rail cars were on their way to camp, but one needed to be abandoned on Hwy 62. The other one made it to QML and survived the hair raising challenge of making it down the main hill in one piece! Vanderburgh Lodge was built in 1954 in memoriam of Rev. R.F. ‘Van’ Vanderburgh who was essential in our formative years of building and teaching.