Tonight our family watched "Camp Rock", with the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato. It was a fairly plotless, completely predictable teen romp, however we kept eyeballing the scenery and saying ... wow, that looks familiar. A few minutes on Google, and we came up with the filming locations of this movie, all in Haliburton/Minden, Ontario! One camp, a boys camp on Gull Lake, called Camp Kilcoo; the other camp called Camp Wanakita outside of Minden on Koshlong lake. Camp Wanakita (mom and dad, get this) is the YMCA camp of the Hamilton and Burlington area YMCAs. Here's a link to a map of the area ... I tried to embed it but wasn't able to.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Minden,+ON&ie=UTF8&ll=45.006564,-78.634644&spn=0.464115,0.64682&z=10
You'll see Gull Lake at the bottom. Minden is sort of centre. To the north of Minden is Boshkung lake; to the left is a very skinny lake called Lake Kuschog, a lake where I spent some time while growing up. My dad's two sisters own cottages on this lake. To the northeast of Minden is Lake Kashagawigamog. Kev and I stayed at a lovely resort on this lake for our honeymoon! And directly to the right of that lake is a small lake that doesn't have a name on the map, but it is Koshlong lake, where the other filming location was.
Just one more example of the long list of American films that have been shot in Canada. One of our personal favourites? "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" was filmed in Toronto. "The Day After Tomorrow" was filmed partially in Toronto and Montreal. "Fly Away Home" was actually filmed in Prince Edward County (Sandbanks Provincial Park, as well as flying scenes over north county and Quinte area, and Toronto! It always struck me as odd that the movie "Chicago" was filmed in TO. "Fantastic Four" was filmed in Vancouver. Portions of "Titanic" were filmed in Halifax and Vancouver. Others are at this link (interesting article):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2007/nov/01/kellynestruckthursampic
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Some of those I knew and some I didn't. Cool stuff. Thanks, Karen!
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