The document provides a history of Goldeye Camp, beginning with its origins in 1959 as a recreational camp created by an original committee. It details some of the early struggles with fundraising and staffing the first camp sessions that hosted 23 students. Over time, more funding sources were secured from agricultural cooperatives and the camp expanded its facilities and programming, including becoming a year-round operation and establishing a charitable foundation to issue tax receipts. The camp has seen many facility upgrades, staffing changes, and growth in attendance over the decades.

1. Goldeye: A Family History

2. Beginnings Alex McCalla Dick Schroter Arnold Platt

3. Plans To Create A Jr. Camp

4. Original Camp Committee

5. Original camp committee Farmers’ Union & Co-operative Development Association, (FU&CDA) Recreational & Leadership Training Centre

6. Fundraising

7. Farmer’s Day June 12, 1959

8. Fundraising problems

9. Pinehill Memorial Cabin (Cabin 1, 1960)

10. New Faces

11. Clover Bar Local Cabin (Cabin 2, 1961)

12. The First Camp 23 Students

13. Fundraising Problems

14. Early Staff Gerald Schuler Morley Bradley John Melicher

15. Funding shift Federated Co-operatives Ltd. Co-operative Fire & Casualty Central Alberta Dairy Pool Northern Alberta Dairy Pool Canadian Co-op Implements Ltd. UFA Co-operatives Ltd. Alberta Wheat Pool United Grain Growers.

16. Church Hoppins Memorial Building (1965)

17. George Church UFA Co-op Pres 1945-1961

18. Wilfred Hoppins UFA Co-op General Manager 1951-1963

19. Goldeye Co-operative Teen & Youth Camps

20. Goldeye Co-operative Teen & Youth Camps

21. Goldeye Co-operative Teen & Youth Camps

22. “ Boy, you really have to work to make democracy function!”

23. Sweet Charlotte – County of Lacombe

24. Costs Estimates Rising $78 000

25. Centennial Celebrations

26. Birth of Unifarm & REDA Farmer’s Union of Alberta Alberta Federation of Agriculture Unifarm Farmer’s Union & Co-operative Development Association, (FU&CDA) Rural Education & Development Association

27. Director of Country Programs and Goldeye Jack Muza

28. Jr. FUA Discontinued

29. Blunden Manor (1973)

30. Year Round Activities (1978) $120 000

31. Birth of Foundation Charitable Organization Tax Receipts Annual Membership Fees

32. Jacquie Jevne Board Campaign Co-ordinator $2 000 000

33. Comfort Memorial Award (1980) $25 000 Co-operative Exchange programs

34. Changes Aplenty Hay Memorial Cabin (1982) President’s Wing The White Cabin Jack Muza Building Betty Pederson Boardroom

35. Youth Program Managers John Melicher Richard Stringham Marg Langford Diana Petrovic Joanne Hedstrom Allan Bartolcic Liane Courchesne

36. Attendance 1997 – 181 Participants 1998 – 330 Participants

37. A Few Current Sponsors UFA Co-op Stores & Associations Agricultural Societies Rec Boards. Calgary Co-op The Co-operators Credit Unions