I was about halfway through my graduate program and overcome with nostalgia for my summers as a canoe tripper for a camp in Northern Ontario
. We led four day canoe trips in Algonquin Park. I missed the adventure: getting dirty, howling at the moon and laughing with a belly full of s’mores. I missed that sense of pride that came with campers accomplishing small tasks – gathering wood, building a fire, completing a portage – and that blast of tranquillity that settled deep in your gut with each Northern breath. There was a feeling of satisfaction with that job that I just wasn’t able to find anywhere else.
We worked throughout the following weekend on an application for an Ontario summer company program, which awarded grants to young entrepreneurs between the ages of 15 and 29. After detailing a business plan with projected costs and foggy marketing strategy, we hit “submit.”
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