Montreal – Scouts Canada says that it has accepted a proposal to sell a historic camp site in the north of Montreal that was opened over 110 years ago.
The organization announced on Thursday that it had sold the Tamrakuta Scout Reserve to Entrepreneur Eric Desroches, in partnership with Canada’s Nature Conservancy and Town of Mills, Q.
The organization says that the new owner will preserve more than 80 percent land for conservation, opening a part to the public.
In 2019, the camp was closed that Scouts Canada asked the years of gradual financial difficulty and expensive repairs.
The chairman of a civic group who fought to preserve the site, says that the property would be worried that the property would be sold to a developer and that its forest would be down.
Karine Pelfi says that she is carefully optimistic about sales, but is looking for concrete evidence that the new owner will preserve the land and maintain access to young people.
Scouts Canada described the property as the world’s oldest operating scout camp in 2024.
This report of Canadian Press was first published on 18 July 2025.
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