Post your favourite song

It's campfire time friends. Time to post your favourite campfire song.

For me, I don't think I'll ever get over Fiona Kinghorn screaming her lungs out over "There ain't no flies on us". Maybe I didn't get it...but there isn't any singing to that song! So is it really a song?

And who can forget Greg Eden leading us in..."Second verse, little bit louder, little bit worse"

This is the Pitts

She was the cook! I mean THE cook...and when she wasn't the cook she seemed to be a second Mom to many of the girls. And then there was Ernie! What can we say about Professor Joy! Always willing to help around the camp, and to be involved especially if it meant working with children.
Now come on there, especially those of you who have known these two for a long time. What do you think?

The Smell

J9 reminds us of that lovely aroma down at the beach...rotting fish, seaweed...yuck! And yet at the same time there were times when it was a wonderful place to go.

But for those of us a little older we remember another smell. The ol' dining room, which became the craft hall (or recreation hall) when I was a kid at Camp Selkirk, had a water fountain outside the front door. I needed to take a hayfever tablet (that's another story) and I nearly chooked when I tried to get to the water fountain. Yuck - it smelled like sulfer.

The smell was solved when the then Major Roy Calvert was the DS for Ontario South. Someone will tell me who was the DYS of the day.

Behind the scenes

Those girls on staff they loved each other! Well I think they did! What is she doing?

I remember that hair dying got to be a regular event in the girls dorm - sometimes even on the DYS's deck! More photos from Christine...

Welcome to Camp Selkirk Days blog!

We are pulling people in from all across Canada and now Bermuda! (Hello Major Betty Ann Lewis) Since beginning this blog on February 4th we have had over a thousand hits and almost 7000 page views. Today our total was 86 hits alone. Word is out on Camp Selkirk Days blog!

Hello to all the former DYS's as well as those who worked at Selkirk! People are forwarding photos at an alarming rate, but I will try and get them up as we go. Keep putting out the word on Camp Selkirk Days blog!

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Here's a few that came from Christine (Morrison) Gedcke.

Once again we issue the challenge: can you name the faces below? can you put a year to them?

Selkirk Faces

1995 Girls Staff pictures

So from Janine Elvin come these pictures of days gone by...lots of recognizable faces here, but it isn't up to me to name them. So let's here from you. Start from the top and work your way down! Got to love those blue uniforms! I hope someone kept them when the camp was sold!