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Updated:  2005-09-07

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 Annual Voyageur Conservation Camp

 October

Voyageur Council and Ducks Unlimited are pleased to announce the xxth Annual Green Wing, Scouts Canada Conservation Camp. As usual it will be held at the Upper Canada Bird Sanctuary near Morrisburg Ontario. The camp gives your scout aged youth the opportunity to handle wild ducks at the bird banding station, participate in constructing wood duck and song bird nesting boxes, go on marsh walks, watch as retriever dogs are put through there paces, participate in a formal campfire, participate in the onsite station of Jamboree on the Air, and camp on the shores of the St Lawrence river. Registration is limited to 350 people first come first serve. The camp registration fee is $xx.00 per youth and 2 dollars per person per night. This fee includes a 1-year membership in Ducks Unlimited Greenwing club including a 1-year subscription for the Conservator Magazine. There are door prizes for all youth members and a few door prizes for the adults. We will be including a crest designed specifically for this year’s event. This fee does not include food or indoor lodging. All troops are to camp self contained. There will be other activities run during the weekend to help round out the program.

To hold your spot and receive more information please send a contact name and address, the nights you will be camping and an estimation of the number of adults and youth attending to:

Roger Colborne
16 Wilfred Cres
Kingston, Ontario, K7K 7G9

                    Or colborne@kingston.net

                    Or ph. (613) 389-0616

There is an opportunity this year to come and camp and not participate in the Greenwing portion of the camp. You just pay the $2.00 per person per night and you can participate in Jamboree on the Air and the campfire. The group sites will hold up to 700.

Thank you and I hope to see you there,

                                        Roger Colborne
                                        Loyalist Area