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Our Team

Camp Kandalore Staff

At Kandalore, we’re family. Many of our skilled and dedicated staff members are former campers who love sharing the experience with new generations. All of them are outdoor enthusiasts, with training and certification in their activities, and a minimum Bronze Cross in swimming and Standard First Aid/CPR certification.

Jackie Pye
DIRECTOR
Jackie Pye

Jackie has spent most of her summers at camp, most likely to be found in a canoe, building campfires, or telling stories while tumping wannigans. Her years at camp have sparked her passion for connecting with people and nature. Jackie now enjoys watching campers grow up to realize their unique strengths. Her biggest takeaway is the strength of feeling acceptance, belonging and connection that a camp community provides. Jackie believes that this makes a camp culture positive and is transformative for young people. Throughout her career, Jackie has enjoyed various leadership roles and has been fortunate to work in extraordinary schools, camps and communities throughout Canada and internationally. Currently Jackie lives in Creemore, Ontario with her partner Steve, and has two daughters who are exploring the world.

Jaime Anderson
Assistant Director - Camp Life
Jaime Anderson

Jaime has spent 17 summers with Kandalore and has experience in various leadership roles in both overnight and day camps. From a young age, Jaime has loved working in environments that fostered skill development and growth, such as coaching, teaching, and mentorship programs. Jaime studied environmental engineering because for her love of problem solving, working in teams, and affinity for nature, all of which she attributes to her impactful camp experience. Jaime’s goal is to connect with campers, families and staff and provide an inclusive and engaging camp experience that promotes confidence, community and skill-building in the outdoors.

Carly Reid
Assistant Director - Program
Carly Reid

Spending over 17 years exploring the water ways of Algonquin Park and Temagami, Carly has experienced first hand the importance and immense impact that outdoor education and adventure has on youth. Having over 300 days of canoe tripping under her belt, Carly has been a fierce advocator for getting kids outside, promoting a strong sense of self, reverence for others and respect for the environment. For the past three years Carly has worked as the Youth Programs Director for an adventure company in British Columbia where she had the opportunity to create and facilitate enriching outdoor adventure based camps. It is her experience as a passionate guide, leader and program director throughout her camp career that allows Carly to continue to generate positives impacts within the wonderful camp communities.

Lesley Martel
Assistant Director - Operations
Lesley Martel

Lesley joined the Kandalore family back in 2019. Lesley has a background in Human Resources, she has a desire to continue creating a community focused on helping others. Lesley’s role oversees the ‘brains’ of camp. She deals with all registrations, transportation, Tuck Shop, in-camp food, medical, cabin placements, staff paperwork, dining hall, lost and found, parent inquiries, mail, laundry… the list goes on. Lesley works directly with the Head Office Administrator, Summer Office Administrator, International Liaison, Driver, Nurses, Doctors and Lakeside Catering staff.

James Pinto
Assistant Director of Canoe Trip Operations
James Pinto

James likes to take the road less travelled. James spent a lot of his youth travelling across North America, camping, and enjoying the protected parks with his family. This sparked a lifelong interest in the outdoors. Most days James can be found doing some sort of outdoor adventure, paddling, hiking, or camping with his partner and dogs. In 2023 alone he has racked up 165 days of tripping, 90 of them canoe tripping.

James is passionate about outdoor education, conservation, and providing transformative experiences for people through wilderness tripping. James believes that experiential outdoor education aids in personal growth, resilience, emotional well-being and instills environmental stewardship. James has experience working in a variety of outdoor related fields including natural resource management, adventure tourism, wilderness therapy, and wildlife research.

Ash Krueger
Outdoor Education Centre Director
Ash Krueger

This will be Ash’s third summer at Kandalore! Along with many seasons in the OEC he has four previous years of camp experience as a mountain bike counsellor, Assistant Director and Director. After working at camp and completing his degree in Sports Development he discovered his passion for youth development while learning and playing outdoors. Ash is our Outdoor Education Centre Director.

Josh McCann
Outdoor Education Centre Program Director
Josh McCann

After landing at Kandalore in 2021 and leading 2 Explorer and many core canoe trips across the summers, Josh is excited to be leading the OEC team as the Program Director. Josh first caught the “outdoors bug” on a canoe trip through Algonquin in 2017 and he since hasn’t looked back. That canoe trip led him to attend Fleming College for Outdoor Adventure and Education, and subsequently to Kandalore. Alongside those summers, Josh has spent a handful of the other seasons facilitating outdoor education programs and guiding trips in various locations. Josh hopes to continue to build on the great program Kandalore currently offers.

Andrew Graham
Site Manager
Andrew Graham

You will be hard-pressed to find someone who has explored Canada more than Andrew. After gaining extensive knowledge of all lakes and rivers in Haliburton County where he grew up, he continued on to Fleming College where he became a Fish and Wildlife Technician then a Forestry Technician. He spent years exploring the James and Hudson Bay lowlands. Traveling the Coppermine River, Horton River, Bluenose Lake, and Tree River watersheds in the NWT and Nunavut as well as on to the headwaters of Stewart River watershed and numerous other Yukon Rivers and Lakes. He also won’t forget his adventures in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

He now finds himself living on his farm in Minden, and is Haliburton County’s largest food producer. Growing enormous volumes of Organic Nutrient Dense food. During most daylight hours you will find Andrew and his team somewhere around camp maintaining things to the best standards in the industry which keeps the “Kandalore Engine” running flawlessly.

Camp Kandalore recognizes that its work takes place on traditional, ancestral land that has been inhabited by Indigenous people for thousands of years. We are located on Treaty 20 territory, known as the Williams Treaties First Nations: Curve Lake, Rama, Hiawatha, Alderville, Scugog Island, Beausoleil and Georgina Island First Nations.

Kandalore canoe trips also travel through many traditional Indigenous territories across the provinces, predominantly through Treaty 9, Nishnawbe Aski Nation.

We respect their past, present, and future generations, the land, and their traditions. We are grateful for the opportunity to gather, learn, and travel on these lands and waterways.