Summer Events & Opportunities

Encounters with Canada

Encounters With Canada is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for Canadian teens to meet young people from across the country. Spend a week in your nation’s capital. Take part in exciting adventures, explore future career options, learn more about your country, share your hopes and dreams – all through exclusive hands-on workshops, presentations and excursions.

Explore.

Discover another region of Canada while learning French. Enjoy 5 weeks of learning and adventure, friendship and discovery. Most expenses are covered. *If you are planning to use this experience as a French credit, you MUST meet with a school counsellor and make application for such PRIOR to DOE April deadline. You cannot request to use the experience as a credit after the experience.

Senate Page Program

Each year, fifteen university students from across Canada are selected to participate in the Senate Page Program. The Senate pages are responsible for a wide variety of activities associated with the legislative process. Moreover, they are given a direct opportunity to further their knowledge of parliamentary procedure by exposure to the rich tradition of Canada's parliamentary system and the Senate of Canada.

Legion Leadership Camp

The Royal Canadian Legion NS/Nunavut Command Youth Legion Leadership Training Camp is a nine (9) day program offered to students of NS and NU High schools since 1964 and takes place at the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus, Truro, NS. The camp is usually the last week of June.

The purpose of the camp is to offer students a unique opportunity to develop leadership skills. The staff uses elements of art, drama, athletic skills, music and dance to allow campers to learn to develop public speaking skills, also, to motivate a group to pursue a course of action for the benefit of the group or community at large.

The Camp is for students interested in accepting and meeting a challenge. It is an opportunity for young people to grow as potential leaders. In order to be selected, each student must have completed Grade 10 or Grade 11 and returning to school the following year.

Application forms are available at Student Services each spring.

Swap Working Holidays

SWAP started in 1975 and has sent over 50,000 Canadians abroad on working holiday adventures. We are the largest youth exchange program in Canada and are partnered with reputable partners all over the world.