Summer Camp
Summer Camp is an opportunity for British Columbia Lapidary Society members from all over the province to gather, socialize and rockhound in a fresh area of the province. Tradtionally it has been four days of organized field trips and five nights of social activities. The event focuses on "exploratory locations" — new, unexplored places in the province. The event includes a pot luck dinner, pot luck dessert, and our traditional "Hobo Stew" (everybody contributes a can of food - no soups, chili, fish, or road kill).
The Executive is entertaining proposals from parties interested in taking the lead to organize Summer Camp 2024. The offer for proposals will be on the table until the end of 2023. If no proposal has been accepted in early 2024 we will officially cancel the event for 2024.
Past Summer Camps
The British Columbia Lapidary Society and its chartered clubs and members have been hosting Summer Camp since 1960. Throughout this time we have explored a great deal of British Columbia and collected a wide variety of interesting rocks and minerals.
Year | Location | Host |
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2023 | No camp | |
2022 | No camp | |
2021 | No camp | |
2020 | No camp | |
2019 | Galloway | Linda Marcelet |
2018 | Takysie Lake | Lakes District Rock & Gem Club |
2017 | Takysie Lake (Cancelled due to fires) | Lakes District Rock & Gem Club |
2016 | Quesnel | ![]() |
2015 | Nahatlach Valley, Boston Bar | ![]() |
2014 | Port Alberni | ![]() |
2013 | Lillooet | ![]() |
2012 | Creston | Creston Valley Prospectors & Lapidary Club |
2011 | Van Anda, Texada Island | ![]() |
2010 | Little Fort | Raft River Rockhounds |
2009 | Tachick Lake | |
2008 | Fort St. James | Win Robertson |
2007 | Tchesinkut Lake | Lakes District Rock & Gem Club |
2006 | Port McNeill | ![]() |
2005 | Puntzi Lake | |
2004 | Slocan | ![]() ![]() |
2003 | Fraser Lake | Win Robertson |
2002 | Sheridan Lake | |
2001 | Dragon Lake, Quesnel | |
2000 | Takysie Lake | Spruce City Rock & Gem Club |
1999 | Tchesinkut Lake | |
1998 | Montana, USA | |
1997 | Black Creek VI, Oyster River | |
1996 | No camp | |
1995 | No camp | |
1994 | Kamloops, Tranquille | |
1993 | Sayward, Vancouver Island | ![]() |
1992 | Whitehorse, Yukon | |
1991 | Summit Creek, Trail, Creston, Nelson, Champion Lakes | |
1990 | Williams Lake, Quesnel | |
1989 | Duncan, VI - Skutz Falls | |
1988 | No camp | |
1987 | Whitehorse, Yukon | |
1986 | Sayward, Vancouver Island | |
1985 | Drumheller, Alberta | Ches Larson / Win Robertson |
1984 | Manson Creek, Omineca River | Omineca River, Vanderhoof |
1983 | Scotty Creek | Ches Larson |
1982 | Washington State | Ches Larson / Federal Way Club |
1981 | Monte Lake | Ches Larson |
1980 | Yukon Territories | Fred Dorward / Ches Larson |
1979 | Qualicum Beach | Ches Larson |
1978 | Francois Lake | Ches Larson / Nechako Valley Rock Club |
1977 | Monte Lake | Peter Constanzo |
1976 | Crawford Bay | Harold Sutton |
1975 | Princeton/Hedley | Harold Sutton |
1974 | Greenwood | Harold Sutton |
1973 | Smithers | Jack Chappel |
1972 | Monte Lake | Bob Armstrong |
1971 | Francois Lake | Nachako Valley Rock Club / Fraser Lake |
1970 | Barriere | Bob Armstrong |
1969 | Golden | Bob Armstrong |
1968 | Greenwood | Greenwood Rock & Antique Club / Alice Wade |
1967 | Takysie | Fred Preuesse |
1966 | Sorrento | Fred Preuesse |
1965 | Quesnel | Fred Preuesse |
1964 | Pinaus Lake | Lew Carswell |
1963 | No camp | |
1962 | Squilax | Norman Fisher |
1961 | Francoise Lake | Jack Sankey |
1960 | Empire Valley | Jack Sankey |