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no further camping possible until 1946 when our own camp had
been built.
During those intervening years, though camping lay dormant,
enthusiasm and hard work for the establishment of our camp was
not. True, there were difficulties to be overcome, but overcome
they were. First, there was the difficulty of deciding whether it
would be wise to accept an offer of partnership in the project by
two Lutheran groups which would become joint owners of the camp.
This was too big a decision to be put through in a hurry at a
convention, so the matter was referred to the Ladies Aids who
were asked to vote on it. Mrs. Fjola Gray, convener of the camp
committee, reported in 1944 that the result of the voting was a
definite rejection of such co-operation: seventeen Ladies’ Aids voted
against it and three for it. This result is yet another example of
the independent spirit of this group of women. There would be
many difficulties facing them in establishing the planned camping
facilities, but they were determined to do it alone and they carried
on.
Secondly there was the difficulty of choosing a camp site suit-
able to all. Of two available sites, one in Arnes, the other in Husa-
vick situated on the shore of Lake Winnipeg four miles south of
Gimli, the executive and camp committee recommended the one
in Husavick at the 1945 convention of the L. W. L. held in Selkirk.
It was unanimously decided to buy the Husavick site of seven
acres, which was later augmented to twelve acres, the size of
the present site. Great enthusiasm reigned at this most outstand-
ing convention ever held by the Lutheran Women’s League. Though
the fund was small, inside of two thousand dollars, faith in the
future of the project was greater, and it was decided to build the
following spring as many buildings as possible. It was also agreed
to establish a memorial fund and to build an aúditorium, when
possible, in memory of the boys who did not return from the
two world wars — boys belonging to our national and church
group.
A building committee was formed at the first executive meet-
ing held after the convention. Four men consented to work on
that committee, they were: Sveinn Palmason, S. O. Bjerring, Hrolfur
Sigurdson and Marteinn Jonasson, all of whom have passed on ex-