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=== Camping === [[File:2013-05-06 17 29 22 Entrance for YMCA Camp Bernie.jpg|thumb|YMCA Camp Bernie]] [[File:YMCA Maple Syrup.JPG|thumb|A YMCA camp in [[Huguenot, Orange County, New York|Huguenot, New York]]]] YMCA camping began in 1885 when Camp Baldhead (later known as [[Camp Dudley]]) was established by G.A. Sanford and Sumner F. Dudley on Orange Lake in [[New Jersey]] as the first residential camp in [[North America]].<ref name=":4"/> The camp later moved to Lake Champlain near [[Westport, New York]].<ref name="100YrsCamping" /> Camping also had early origins in YMCA movement in [[Canada]] with the establishment in 1889 of [[Big Cove YMCA Camp]] in Merigomish, [[Nova Scotia]].<ref>{{cite web |title=YMCA Timeline : 1880β1899 |url=http://www.ymca.ca/html/tl_1880.htm |access-date=2012-07-01 |publisher=Ymca.ca |archive-date=3 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403030238/http://www.ymca.ca/html/tl_1880.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Our History |url=http://www.ymcastorercamps.org/who-we-are/our-history/ |access-date=19 April 2015}}</ref>
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