Purpose At Music Camp our focus is Christ and music is the principal means by which we celebrate Him. Ours is a camp for families and individuals who come together to experience Christian community.

The Site

Presbyterian Music Camp, Muskoka takes place on a large, natural site. Facilities include camp cabins with bunks (bring your own bedding), an unserviced tent/trailer area, dining hall, many performance spaces, recreation facilities (tennis, basketball, volleyball, baseball, ball hockey), a beautiful private lakefront, swimming and canoes (with qualified lifeguards).

Although the site is not specifically disabled accessible, we are sensitive to people with allergy, food, disability or mobility needs. Please indicate your needs with your registration or by contacting the registrar.

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Our Logo

At the 1984 camp, everyone who wished submitted a design for a camp logo. Both children and adults made drawings and everyone at camp indicated their choice. This logo, designed by Brenda Fee, was the one that was chosen.

A Circle for the fellowship and unity of the Christian Family

A Music Note floating on the lake

A Leaning Tree on the shore

The Lake representing nature

The Cross of Jesus Christ made from a tree.

History

In the Beginning...
Presbyterian Music Camp was originally organized as a one time event to introduce the new Presbyterian Book of Praise in 1972.

This event was loosely organized under the Book of Praise committee and held at the Golden Lake United Church Camp site. After that camp, the organizing committee was encouraged to run a similar camp in the following year. It did continue to be organized, on an annual basis, by a volunteer committee under the Presbytery of Montreal until the late 1980s, when it was decided that the Synod of Quebec and Eastern Ontario was a more appropriate body.

The 90s
By 1990 the camp had grown so popular that it was decided to run the camp in two separate weeks. The committee serving at that time was split into two committees, one meeting in the Montreal/Eastern Ontario area (M.E.O.) and the other meeting in the South Western Ontario area (S.W.O.).

Starting in 1991, the M.E.O. committee has run the first week and the S.W.O. committee has run the second week. The two camps were still run at the original Golden Lake site as one organization, but in two separate weeks, each with it's own committee and staff.

Since the division of the two committees in 1990, it was planned that the second week of camp would search for a site closer to south western Ontario, in order to expand our ministry into that area. In 1996, the culmination of four years of searching was realized. The S.W.O. committee ran it's camp out of Camp Tamarack, near Bracebridge in the Muskoka area of Ontario.

Coincidentally, the first week of camp experienced an overflow situation at the Golden Lake site and also moved in 1996. The new site chosen for the Camp was Wesley Acres Retreat Centre & Campground in Bloomfield, Ontario, near Picton.

The New Millenium
For many years Campers used a mix of acronyms (MEO & SWO) and vague geographical references (East & West) to distinguish the two Camps. In 2004, both Camps decided that these names had become obsolete and needed to be replaced. The second week had, for some time, been using 'Muskoka' as an unofficial moniker and officially became PMC-Muskoka. The first week had used 'PMC-East' for many years but decided that PMC-Quinte best represented their site & location. Last year they further decided that the makeup of their camp was better represented by operating independant of The Presbyterian Church. It is now called Quinte Christian Music Camp.

Presbyterian Music Camp has always been a self-supporting, non-profit organization. Donations to the Alison Stewart-Patterson fund are used to support people who would otherwise be unable to afford to come to camp. Both weeks of camp are located in and are represented on the Toronto/Kingston Synod Camp Board.