Behind all the fun activities and experiences from Salvation Army summer camps, there are dedicated cabin leaders, who work hard to ensure campers are safe and enjoying their time. Cabin leaders provide day-to-day care for campers. They sleep in the same cabins as the campers, help them in their daily care, and lead them through  […]

Café Connection happens every Wednesday. It is a place where friends of The Salvation Army in Whitby, Ont., have a chance to get together to enjoy meaningful conversation, connection, and a delicious cup of coffee. The vision was to create a safe space where Majors Ken and Donette Percy, pastors, along with the church leadership  […]

To help battle the heat this summer, The Salvation Army in Brandon, Man., has developed an initiative to assist priority communities in the city’s main core. On days when the temperature reaches 30 C or above, Salvation Army staff and volunteers walk around downtown pulling rolling wagons with coolers where they store water bottles that  […]

Each year on the first Friday of June, The Salvation Army celebrates National Doughnut Day. This tradition started back in 1938. It was initially set up as a fundraising effort to honour the “Doughnut Lassies”, who bravely delivered doughnuts to soldiers on the frontline during the First World War. Today, National Doughnut Day serves as  […]

There are many challenges that come with moving to Canada. The Salvation Army journeys with people to break down barriers and give them a better tomorrow. Diego’s story At age 28, Diego left Venezuela and went to the United States as a student with his family—without resident status. “We became parents of two children during  […]