(Montreal) Scouts Canada has announced that it has accepted a sales offer for a historic camp north of Montreal, opened over 110 years ago.
The organization announced Thursday the sale of the Tamaracouta scout reserve, to the entrepreneur Éric Desroches, in partnership with Conservation of Nature Canada and the City of Mille-Isles, in the Laurentians.
The organization claims that the new owner will preserve more than 80 % of the land for conservation purposes, while opening part of the public.
The camp closed its doors in winter 2018-2019 after what Scouts Canada described as several years of successive financial difficulties and urgent costly repairs.
The president of a group of citizens who fought for the preservation of the site said that the property was sold to a promoter and that her wild environment is degraded.
Karine Peloffy says he is prudently optimistic about the sale, but awaits concrete evidence that the new owner will preserve the land and will maintain access to young people.
Scouts Canada described the property in 2024 as the oldest active scout camp in the world.