Day camps in Ottawa for 2026: PA days, winter break, March Break and summer

This list collects day camps with a session starting in 2026, as the people who run them publish it. Ontario’s school breaks set the calendar: PA day camps through the school year, winter break camps between Christmas and New Year, March Break camps in the middle of March and summer camps from the end of June to Labour Day. Summer dates often appear only in the spring. Schools in Gatineau follow Quebec’s calendar, so their spring break (la relâche) usually comes a week or two before Ontario’s March Break, and a camp may post both weeks. A camp held in a school, a church hall or a park is listed under whoever runs it, at the address where it meets.

Each of those breaks has its own section and heading: March Break, summer, winter break and the PA days. Breaks with camps running now or yet to start come first, in calendar order, and breaks already over are placed after them. A date that falls outside these breaks goes under “Other dates”, and camps with no date posted yet are in the last section.

A provider with camps in two breaks has a row in each, and a row shows only that break’s dates: the first that had not yet passed on November 10, 2026, or the last date if all of them have, followed by the hours of one camp day. Dates over by then are treated as past, regardless of the day you read this. Within a break, camps running now or yet to start come first; then rows go by neighbourhood and name, unranked.