Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Camp Assiniboia (Headingley, Manitoba)
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1968-
History
In 1948 a group of Mennonites formed the Assiniboine Mennonite Mission Camp Society (AMMC) which purchased the Sunnyside Beach near Headingley, Manitoba on the Assiniboine River. Over the next decade the camping program developed, with the Conference of Mennonites in Manitoba (CMM), increasingly assuming ownership of the program. In the late 1950s some church members purchased lots and cottages at Moose Lake, and making these available for campers. In 1964 the CMM approved the beginning of a "second" camp at Lake Max, based on the investigation of the Youth and Education committee and the Whitewater Mennonite Church (Boissevain), and CMM approved taking on the responsibility of Moose Lake as a "third" camp. In 1968 the name of the AMMC camp changed to Camp Assiniboia. The other two camps became known as Camp Moose Lake and Camp Koinonia.