Paradise Lake, Ontario
Cottages and summer camp
The lake is surrounded by cottages on private land; there is no public access to the water nor a public beach. Early settlers in the Bamberg area were from Germany and the village was initially named Weimar; it was changed to Bamberg in 1852. The nearest city is Waterloo, Ontario.
A residential summer camp for children has been located on this lake since 1924, currently the Camp Ki-Wa-Y, so-named in 1942. The 77 acres of land and the buildings were owned by the Kiwanis Club of Kitchener-Waterloo but the camp was donated to the Kitchener-Waterloo YMCA in the 2009. Thanks to an agreement with the Kiwanis Club, the Y had already used the site as a camp for some years (since at least 1975), sometimes in conjunction with some Roman Catholic groups, and has held year-round programming for school groups here since 1995 as the YMCA Outdoor Education Centre; the association also uses the site for conferences, retreats, meetings and family reunions.
References
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- ^ "Bamberg". Roadside Thoughts. Manta Blue Sky. 2016. Retrieved August 27, 2016.
- ^ "Bamberg". Rural Routes. Rural Routes. 2016. Retrieved August 27, 2016.
- ^ "YMCA calling all summer camp leaders to celebrate". Record. Torstar. 1 April 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ Utley, Ben (1 October 1975). A History of Kitchener, Ontario. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 281. ISBN 189744639X.
- ^ "Kiwanis Club gives a piece of Paradise". Waterloo Chronicle. Metroland Media. 2 September 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ "2009 - Kiwanis Club Donates Land to YMCA". KW Kiwanis Club. Kiwanis Club of Cameron Heights. 2 August 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2018.