The camp draws campers and staff from across Canada, the United States, Europe and Israel.

885 of B'nai Brith Canada founded the Ottawa Jewish Boy Scouts Camp in 1935, sponsoring forty underprivileged local Jewish boy scouts who wished to attend summer camp.

[1] The camp, which would become Camp B'nai Brith of Ottawa, was originally located in Dubrobin near Fitzroy Harbour, serving the Jewish communities of Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal.

[2] While sponsored by the Lodge, the camp was initially run under the strict supervision of the District Boy Scouts Association.

[4] The camp moved its current site on the shore of the Ottawa River in Quyon, Quebec in 1946.