What comes next
Four days is a start. This page is the answer to the question every parent asks at pickup on the Friday, which is the most important question anyone asks us all week.
exists
A camp that ends on the Friday and leads nowhere is a nice week. What decides whether a child actually plays hockey is what is available on the Monday, whether it costs anything, and whether anyone told the family it existed.
These are the four routes we can point you to. We are not paid by any of them and we do not take a cut. Ask us and we will make the introduction ourselves.
Four ways to keep playing
Leaside Hockey Association
Running minor hockey out of Leaside Arena since 1952. Forty five house league teams and forty eight competitive teams. If your child came to a camp at Leaside, this is the association whose ice they were already standing on.
Toronto Leaside Wildcats
One of the largest girls and women's hockey associations in Ontario. More than sixteen hundred players from three year olds through to adults, and a woman in a leadership role on every single team. Roughly half of every camp we run is girls.
Horizons Saturday sessions
Our own weekly sessions at Upper Canada College for camp alumni who want to keep skating. By referral, and free, like everything else we do.
Another Open Ice camp
Six camps a year, three at Leaside and three at Ted Reeve. Returning campers are welcome and they are placed in the tier they have earned, not the one they started in.
If cost is still the barrier
It usually is. Here is what actually exists, stated plainly.
- Canadian Tire Jumpstart funds registration and equipment for families who qualify, and both Leaside and the Wildcats accept it.
- KidSport Ontario offers grants toward registration fees.
- Association subsidies. Most associations have a quiet hardship fund. Ask the registrar directly; they will not advertise it.
- Your gear is already yours. Every camper leaves with a full set under Keep Your Gear, so the equipment cost has already been removed.
If you are not sure where to start, email us. We have done this before and we will do the phoning.
Three arenas, one city
Six camps a year, three at Leaside Arena and three at Ted Reeve Community Arena, plus Saturday sessions at Upper Canada College for camp alumni by referral.
The arenas
| Arena | Where | Rink | What runs there |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leaside Arena | 1073 Millwood Road, Toronto | Pashby Rink A | 3 camps a year |
| Ted Reeve Community Arena | 175 Main Street, Toronto | not applicable | 3 camps a year |
| Upper Canada College | 200 Lonsdale Road, Toronto | The rink at UCC | Horizons Saturday sessions for camp alumni, by referral |
Where our campers come from
- Regent ParkWhere the first nine campers came from
- St. James TownThe most densely populated neighbourhood in Canada
- Thorncliffe Park
- Flemingdon Park
- OakridgeTwo kilometres from Ted Reeve
If your neighbourhood is not on this list it does not matter. Nobody has ever been turned away for living somewhere else.