Camp Tournesol is a summer camp that focuses on fun, while meeting campers where they are in their French language journey proficiency – from just beginning, to fully fluent. We’re here to foster a lifelong love of the language, while having an amazing time at summer camp!
July 6-10 & Aug 4-7
Journey through a week inspired by the beloved game — but with a French-language twist. Blending creative, hands-on activities, outdoor challenges, storytelling, and daily Minecraft clan competitions – campers are engaged from start to finish.
July 13-17 & Aug 10-14
Designed for campers who love to build, invent, and explore, this week blends imaginative LEGO challenges, problem-solving missions, friendly team competitions, and French language learning that unfolds naturally throughout the day.
July 20-24 & Aug 17-21
Step into an epic Minecraft-inspired journey where every day brings a new adventure, a new challenge, and a new quest to solve. Campers explore biomes, decode secret messages, build creations, complete team missions, and more!
July 27-31 & Aug 24-27
In this exciting week, campers bring their imaginations to life through hands-on engineering challenges, problem-solving missions, and inventive LEGO builds. It’s packed with experiments, collaboration and creativity!
Canadore College: 100 College Dr, North Bay, ON P1B 8K9
5-day camp weeks: $268
4-day camp week (August 4-7): $215
Camp hours are 9am-4pm. Before camp care with drop-off starting 7:30am can be purchased for $40 for a 5 day camp week ($32 for 4 day), and after camp care with pick-up until 5:30pm can be purchased for $40 for a 5 day camp week ($32 for a 4 day week). Add them to your cart when you checkout, or purchase them later.
At Camp Tournesol, we work to nurture a lifelong love of French, no matter where your camper is in their French language journey! You have the option to register your camper in one of two streams, depending on their current French background:
(4-13 years)
Is your camper not in a French immersion program and/or you don’t speak French at home, but you still want them to build vocabulary and skills? Foundations is for them!
(4-13 years)
If your camper is in a French immersion program or you speak French at home, and you’d like them to build fluency and proficiency, our Mastery stream is the perfect choice.
With our goal of campers improving their French language proficiency and confidence, no matter what level of skill they join us with, our programming continually incorporates French learning in a way that just feels like fun. How do we do it? Read more about our approach.
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Let’s get their summer fun in 2026 started! Registering for camp is easy, but hurry – weeks fill up fast!
To see if the site and week you’re interested in has availability, login or create an account, and select your location.
All locations except those noted as “Waitlist” have availability, and you will be able to register your camper(s). If your week has a waitlist, you will have the option to add your camper to the waitlist and/or purchase other weeks if you’d like. If and when a spot becomes available, we will contact you to let you know. Waitlists are of course first come, first served.
Yes! This location has air conditioning.
Typically, our counsellor to camper ratio is 1:7. In other words, there is 1 counsellor for every 7 campers.
The majority of our counsellors are university and college students (some secondary school students are hired each year, as well). We also employ teachers who want to create an impact in the summer months, as well as students and graduates of teachers colleges across Ontario. A recent Vulnerable Sector Police Check is mandatory for all counsellors. There will be at least one counsellor present at each camp location with their First Aid certification at all times. Of course, all of our counsellors are fluent in French.
Our French Foundations and French Mastery stream spots are not limited, we allow registration for each on a first come basis, up until the total capacity for that location and week is reached. We find this almost always results in a good mix of proficiency levels, resulting in all campers building on their French knowledge.
Our general FAQ page is full of great info that might help! If you don’t find your answer there, we’re also here to help in a bunch of ways:
