View the Summer 2026 Camps & Programs Guide Today!
Online member registration begins March 24, 2025
March 16, 2026
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Are you ready for summer fun? We are!
The fun begins on July 6! Find your favourite camps and programs in our 2026 Summer Camps & Programs Guide. Stay active all through the summer months, we have programs for all ages, interests, and fitness levels.
Summer Camps – Age 5 1/2 to 12 years old*
*Children must have turned 5 by December 31, 2025 to attend camp
From Monday, July 6 to Friday, August 28, here’s a peek at what your summer will look like:
- Aspiring Artists | Find your inner artist, spend the week expressing your creative side by designing colourful and unique masterpieces.
- Earth & Space Adventures | Get ready for a week full of cosmic fun, create your own space shuttle and test out a telescope!
- Spy Academy | Campers will transform into secret agents during this action-packed week.
- Spectacular Science | Grab your lab coat and join us for fun science experiments and activities.
- Outdoor Explorers, Water Blast, Youth Leadership, and more…
NEW! Non-member Summer Program users will need a new Program Access card – you will receive the new card on the start date of your program at the entry gates. All Programs will use this new Program Access card as of Summer Programming, so please keep your new card once you receive it.
Fitness and Wellness (Ages 16+)
Our registered Adult Fitness and Wellness programs are designed for the participant who wishes to progress over the course of a program. Led by our certified instructors, these programs are smaller in size allowing for more specialized training and attention to help you reach your goals.
Adult Specialized Programs
- Toughen Up encourages you to learn functional movements, bodyweight exercises, interval training and more.
- Kettlebell Sculpt builds foundational strength, coordination, and endurance week by week.
- Youth Strength & Conditioning program continues in July and August to provide youth in grades ages 12-17 an opportunity to work with a personal trainer and master the principles of effective training.
Wellness Programs
Our Wellness programs have something for all fitness levels in a welcoming environment. Here’s a sneak peek of what we’re offering this summer:
- Total Mobility is designed for beginners and includes intermediate exercisers! Improve your overall flexibility and body awareness through static and dynamic stretch techniques and joint mobility work.
- Functional Pilates—gain strength and stamina with a variety of moves and postures using props, weights, and your own bodyweight.
- Yin Yoga is slow paced, soothing, and a meditative style of yoga. A great way to compliment your regular exercise and increase your overall wellbeing.
Perinatal Programs
Our perinatal programs have the opportunity to benefit your pregnancy journey, as well as parents who already have little ones running around.
- Stroller Circuit – one of our most popular programs, provides new parents the chance to enjoy cardio and strength workouts and have fun while having the little ones tag along.
- Prenatal Yoga honours the changes in ourselves and our body throughout the 9 months of connecting with baby. Our Pre and Postnatal Yoga instructor will provide you with the opportunity to strengthen and balance your body.
Fitness Services
- Fitness Services are also available and include Personal Training and Dryland Team Training
Aquatics Programs
- Learn basic survival skills and proper swimming technique with Lifesaving Society’s Swim for Life programs—from Parent and Tot to Swimmer 9.
- Our Leadership Programs Chart shows the path to become a lifeguard and/or instructor and how to become an Aquatics staff member. In Leadership Programs, you can learn vital first aid, lifeguarding, athletic integrity, and of course, fun!
- The Summer Swim Team is for athletes looking to compete over the summer months in a positive, encouraging and fun environment. The 2026 Summer Provincial Championships will occur in Windsor from Friday, August 14 to Sunday, August 16.
Summer 2026 Camps and Program Guide
Summer 2026 Registration Dates
Members:
Online | March 24, beginning at 8:00am
In-Person | March 26, beginning at 8:00am
Non-Members:
Online | March 31, beginning at 8:00am
In-Person | April 2, beginning at 8:00am
You’ll need a MyRec account to register for all of our programs! See our How To’s.