Keewaydin (camp)

The Keewaydin Foundation is an organization that manages a number of summer canoe camps based in Ontario and Vermont, as well as an environmental educational center.

In Algonquin, Keewaydin is the Northwest wind, considered to be the bearer of good fortune and fair weather.

Having come to realize that the timber industry and tourism had spoiled Maine for canoe tripping, Clarke set up a temporary camp on Lake Temagami in Ontario in 1903.

[1] In 1904 Clarke founded a permanent camp on the south end of Devil Island, calling it Keewaydin.

[2] In 1910 a camp for younger boys, called Keewaydin Dunmore, was founded on Lake Dunmore in Vermont[3] and in 1921 a new girls-only camp, called Songadeewin (meaning "strong of heart"), was founded on Lake Willoughby, also in Vermont.