Camp des Débrouillards

looks like a great camp

According to our kids, the best way to spend the summer.

My daughter loved her week there. The places looks great and the staff seemed fun

My son loved his time at camp very organised and very friendly and professionnal Will be back next year

A group (5) of friends and myself stumbled upon the camp two years ago at Thanksgiving. At that time, it was vacant with no people nor children or doors or gates shut. We ventured and saw a beautiful camp grounds where we thought would be a lovely place for our children. This year, 2015, we went back up with a different group of friends (6), wanting to show them the same sites we experienced. When we got there, there were children and monitors and upon meeting a counselor from the camp, she kindly informed us that it was a private weekend for the children. My partner calmly told her we had been there the year before and she apologized and we left. While walking away, I'd say we got 50 feet away from the initial gate we walked out of, this male counselor, named B.Charette, approaches us and says "Do you need help?" we says no we were leaving and he states that apparently the girl, whom we talked to said my partner gave attitude. My partner, wanting to know how she thought that asked the man to escort him back to her so he could figure out the misunderstanding. When we got to the girl she said it wasn't my partner so I asked her, in french, who it was so that person could apologize to her. The male counselor turns to me and says if I spoke french I should have the whole time. I am a complete Anglophone who learned the french language to have opportunities. The male counselor was raising his tone and being aggressive. He told me rudely to leave where I explained that if that's how he handles himself in a simple discussion, by becoming irritated and annoyed easily, I'm afraid how he is when non supervised with children. I called the owner/ director and tried explaining this to her but before I could even finish she chose to say we were rude and belligerent and would be siding with them because he is an awarded counselor... She didn't even listen to the fact that the young female counselor said it WASN'T my partner and that the male counselor was SHOUTING in my face... Those aren't ways to handle situations.... Furthermore she mentioned it was Private Property, although there is NO SIGN... Granted that we now know it is we won't "TRESPASS" but it would be effective that for future people they put up a CLEAR sign... As other land owners do through out that stretch of road... Also that they securely close their gates because I'm convinced we aren't the only ones to have fumbled upon their place. Again, we fully understand the notion of private but we weren't aware until this year. It's a shame because the place is beautiful, old school type feel but with one male counselor like that, I wouldn't trust leaving them with him or the owner if that's how rude and discriminatory they are.

This camp was one of the best times of my life. Everyone was very friendly and nice, the food was great, the activities were very fun and it was a blast. I would definitely go back there very soon! It was a wonderful experience!

I don't really know what to say about this place. I'm not too sure if it has changed over the years but I do remember that my experience at this place wasn't that great. Back in Grade 5 or 6 my school decided to go on a trip at camp debroullards. I remember the camp counsellors' form of entertainment, right before our lunch time, was to stuff a bunch of marshmallows in their mouths while adding bags of pop-rocks and washing it down with some liquid, water or lemonade. They would then subsequently throw up this mixture back into a water jar when they couldn't hold it in and look at us like what they did was funny. I also remember one of the afternoon activities was to go kayaking at a lake. I remember getting some bad sunburns because we kept kayaking in circles for hours. Because we kept kayaking for hours many kids were left behind without the activity heads noticing, it was only me and two other kids that were barely following behind them. It seemed like they were lost as we kept circling around the same path and when we finally stopped the three of us remaining just played some jump ball with a deflated soccer ball we found in the river we were kayaking in. Some of the stories I heard back from my friends were rather entertaining at least. Most of them were stranded on an island somewhere in the middle of the kayaking path, and one had to go do the big bathroom and the only resources to clean up was to use the leaves in the surroundings. Fast forward a couple hours and we get back from that place, we all take showers. Cold showers because for some reason they didn't have heating, and during this time more 'entertainment' was needed. While we were showering water balloons will come dropping from above as a form of entertainment. All of this happened about 6 years ago and i'm sure they have improved for the better from the reviews im currently reading. I just wanted to get this story out there because it was a hilarious but weird experience now that I look back on it.

The kid had a lot of fun in this summer camp.