The story of Amogla camp 

Seems like a no-brainer for a few dozen of youtubes finest woodworkers to holiday here and video themselves fixing things! Totally in love with this place after following your videos this last few years :)

Matthias this video brings back so many great memories for me. I used to vacation there with my father and his friends every June in the 90’s. They vacationed there much longer. Cabin 6 and 7 were home to us. Your mom and dad were the most gracious hosts. They always had us over for dinner one night while we were there. I would give one of limbs for another slice of your mom’s rhubarb pie. Winford was one of the most gifted woodworkers I have ever met, and also brewed some damn fine beer. The first time I tried it was when they had us out to the farm for an afternoon. I now reside in Florida and my father is now 72. It’s my dream to bring him back there for a week, to stay at the camp we called home every June to fish. Thank you for wonderful video!

Thank you Thank you Thank you! I spent my formative years growing up on that lake even before your family owned them. The improvements you all did with the cabins were a tremendous upgrade and greatly appreciated by everyone who stayed in them. Now, in my mid 50s I miss that place more than you now! Thank you for this video! This place and your family will always be in my heart!

All the wood things - wood panelled walls, furniture, deck… are just amazingly gorgeous. Thanks for sharing : )

Matt, that sound is actually 3g/4g signals being picked up as interference in the cameras audio electronics.

I think a good idea would be to organize a meet and greet / woodworking camp for your subscribers. They can stay at the property, help you fix the place, meet you and learn from you. Wranglerstar did something like that and the subscribers stayed on his property and helped him plant trees.

Whoa, a slice of heaven on earth. How blessed you are! Thank you for sharing Matthias... How precious and cherished this place is! (eyes swelling w/tears) Lovely vid!

What a terrific spot. Fascinating construction and just incredible scenery. I love the scene when you walk down to the lake--so serene. It must have been amazing for vacationing back when it was open to tourists.

Matthias, I have watched your videos for years now (I remember finding your original homemade table saw videos way back when) and i have always found them amazing. Even more amazing though, is how you just made a vlog-style video and handled it better than most youtubers who dedicate their lives to it. I live in South Carolina in the US so I doubt I'll be anywhere near Ontario for a while (especially because I don't yet have a license) but one day I would love to spend time at Amolga camp- if it is still open in a few years, it would be totally worth the drive up there in my eyes!

Beautiful!!! Nice to have a place where friends and family can all come together.

I love these VLOG style videos! Keep them coming :)

Nice tour of the places that you love. It's evidenced in your narrative. It is a great pleasure to see videos like this, and learn a little of your lifestyle. All our very best wishes to you, Matthias.

Matthias thank you for sharing this with us.

Hi Matthias Thanks for the video. I spent a good hour reading different entries of your website and enjoyed your memories of family building summers. I can imagine how much work and learning you have gone trough during those days. Best regards from Argentina Nicolas

You're so lucky to have such a place. I have a couple of very dear friends who own a wood near me, and there's a log cabin there which the family built. I help look after the campsite in my own small way too, though with my health going, I can't do what I once did. But it's a lovely spot, VERY quiet, and no Mobile/Cellphone coverage, unles you go right up to the top of the hill !

It's a real jewel, that place! Lots of love put into all that.

Such beautiful cottages. Would love to visit someday. Though it would be a big trip from California. Hopefully someone out of your near-million subscribers can help you out and get to visit them. Thanks for sharing the story about them, Matthias. I love these types of videos from you.

Bittersweet but fascinating tour, Matthias. Once upon a day I would have jumped at the chance to property manage and maintain a tourist resort but those days are behind me. What intrigues me the most is the fact that I am almost sure that I ran into a younger you and your father in 1989 at a home store (can't remember the name of it) in Sault Ste Marie. Not sure where it was but I'm thinking on Black Rd near McNabb but I can't really be sure. But a big store with lots of stuff and we were looking for a shower stall and so were you and your Pa. We went for the neo-angle with the glass doors while I think you guys favoured the square box stall.

Why in Hell would 37 people thumbs down on this great Vlog ? Your family's place is very reminiscent of the same type of cottage resort I grew up staying at on a Lake in WI. Beautiful!

You Canadians are such nice people. You love woodworking and mountainbiking, two of my biggest passions :)

Hey Matthias, I hope you find people and friends to maintain the status of the cottages. My parents have a petit chalet in the Vosges Mountains in France - especially I am very attached to this place even economically it makes no sense not to sell it. But I know it would leave a hole in my heart, so I can relate why you & your family keep amogla camp. And when I come to Canada I will contact you for a work and stay arrangement. I wish you good luck and many helping hands!

What a beautiful, tranquil spot. Long may it remain so!

What a neat idea. Might be a nice place to teach homesteading, woodworking, and survival skills.

What an amazing place! You were really lucky to grow up there. Very justified being attached to it with all the memories. If there's any other stories about the property it'd be nice to hear them. Perhaps you could row out onto the lake and tell some

That camp is a nice piece of family history. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Very beautiful place. Beats the heck out of any city anywhere in the world.

hello mathias I'm from Brazil i am the son of joiner I learned seeing my father work congratulations by videos

Awesome place Matt.For this time in the world it's a paradise.Hey Bobby Orr came from Sault Ste marie.Thanks for sharing.

It is amaing how much space you own. Also like the new house where you moved in with the huge basement and the even bigger hall. I am impressed!

Thanks for the tour Matthias! Nice to get to know more about your background. The camp is lovely and the work is incredible (the cottages, the wooden hardware, the furniture, etc.) I'm a woodworker making traditionnal windows near Québec city and I very much enjoy your content.

Superb. Thanks for taking us round there and giving us a bit more story behind it all. I imagine the offer to come and help on the cottages will be very popular!

Thanks for sharing the stories of your family's camp!

It's a beautiful place and amazing furniture and woodwork. Thanks for sharing.

Very nice place. Your Dad was a hard worker !!!

This place is spectacular. The fellow with the woodworking RU-vidr meet-up idea is onto something. The video series could be called "Terror at Amogla" and it could be about all of you creating your own pugil sticks from scratch. Yours would be some kind of air-powered piston-style stick that allowed you to adjust fighting range with a simple turn of a wooden gear. It would also shoot marbles at opponents and it would be super good a Jenga. You'd call it the Screw Advance PantaStick. Matt Cremona's would be made after a day in spent the forest hand-selecting the finest tree, milling on a homemade bandsaw mill that he just happened to have with him, and, of course, it would feature some incredible figure. It would be called the CrotchStick. Frank's would be turned from 80 different segmented rings and it would kick asses in stop-motion. When finished it would almost certainly hang on some sort of French cleat. It would be called the HeyItsOkayToIncreasinglyEmbraceCNCForWoodworkingAsLongAsYoiDoItBeautifullyStick and it would have awesome sound effects. There would be others, of course, all beautiful. Marc's would be made on like $50 million in gear that PowerMatic had brought to the site and it'd be called StickNolo and there would be a class on it posted to the Guild. Jeremey's would be astonishingly precise and incorporate no fewer than 720 ting ass drawers assembled from exactly 17,511 box joints from every conceivable direction. All would be exactly alike to within ten thou and all the wood used would be important from the US. It would be called Jer's Bolt Action Stick. Rob's wouldn't be a stick at all until about 60 seconds before the fight, wherein he'll whip one up to perfection using only a series of never-before-seen cascading dovetails. And instead of fighting you, he'll just stare down his glasses at you and you'll just give up. It'll be Cossman's Dovetailed Stick and it'll cost a shitload but it'll be worth every penny. And then, of course, the DIRESTick, which will be made from nothing more than plywood covered in DIRESTA logos each applied in a unique manner, from acid stencil, to radiation, to chemical fire, to celebrity blood stains, and much more. And somehow everyone will want one. Wow, what a freaking cool series that would be.

I once visited an area not far from there when I was younger, my mom use to love going on really long road trips when we could still afford it, and one day we ended up going all the way out to sault ste. marie, through Michigan from all the way down in London.

Very nice story. And beautiful camp.

Thanks again for sharing a piece of your life. That was awesome!!

Oh man, that's a very nice place. Too bad it is virtually closed. Good that you are keeping in nice and tidy

Pretty sweet deal really. Take a week, go up, work during the day on the property, then get to relax and enjoy the lake and scenery in the evenings. Can't argue a deal like that!

The view from the dock looks like the photograph in your picture frame build I think. Looks like a peaceful place. Must be a lot of memories for you there. Great video.

Was an awesome place. It's your own little town. It amazes me how many things your father built (cottages and furniture).

On to the dock!!! Thats the most rickety pier I've ever seen.

What a beautiful place. Thanks for sharing.

Matthias, all of your videos are great, but I enjoyed this one the most.

beautiful country... Your Dad seems like one heck of a guy.May he R.i.p

Great vid too reminisce about my family vacations at Whispering Pines, located at the mouth of the Chippewa River on Batchawana Bay, Lake Superior.

I'd like to see you build a nice dock system for your camp, if people are allowed to rent those camps then they should have an equally nice dock, in my opinion

This place looks beautiful.

It is so sad to see family built places go by the way side please try to keep it gong in memory of your Dad.

Thanks for sharing the Amogla Camp story ! I really enjoyed it David

You are indeed blessed

reminds me of a place i stayed in maine during my at hike. beautiful.

such a gorgeous camp

What a place!! Great to see.

interesting story, thanks for sharing. I appreciate the details even showing the less than perfect things.

I love that quietness. I'm also likely jealous of the weather you have up there. It's pretty brutal here in Kansas unless it's raining.

Thanks for sharing with us! That's really a place to treasure!

That's beautiful land you have. I hope because of this video you get enough help to bring it back up.

What a beautiful place!

Muy lindo ,hermoso ese sitio,me gusta,parece un paraíso en la tierra.recibe un saludo desde Venezuela hermano.

9:22 -- I love the living room furniture in Cabin #6! Would love to see more details about those. It looks like the chairs are adjustable, and the couch is quite nice. I assume these were made by your Dad, too!

amazing place! thank you for taking the time to share.

Wow, that really is a cool location and some really cool cottages! I'm sure it was a fantastic place to stay for a few days to relax and have fun. Its so pretty there!

Amazing Matthias! That area is the dream of many people I know! Never sell it!

What a beautiful place...

hello my name mathias and Marcelo'm from Brazil I am the son of carpenter and learned watching my father work'm fa your videos parabens alias beautiful place this video

Stunning scenery you have there!

What a place your family got there!

Crickey mate, looks bloody beautiful there, bbqs, beer & a bit of work around the joint sounds a great idea 👍🏻

Beautiful family heirloom!

Very beautiful heritage....!

You just booked an entire years worth of people that will take a vacation in exchange for work. If I could talk my wife into driving to Canada I'd come up there for sure.

Amazing place! i love the canada's weather, never get to hot, perfect for me that i get crazy when in summer here in sardinia get 35/40°C! I think that i need yo move in a similar place

thanks for sharing looks like a really cool place. be lots of fun and relaxation to stay there

Beautiful camp. Thanks for sharing.

Hi Matthias, you can be so lucky to live at such a place! I envy you realy. Greetings from Germany, have a good time and enjoy your life. - Freddy

Beautiful !!! I wish I can own one of the cottage, solitude and peaceful. :)

Thats really beautiful and very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

smashing place matthias, your dad was a genius, hang on to it as long as you can, love to help maintain it but suffolk in england is a bit of a step.

Nice place, thanks for sharing .

I can fully understand that you and your siblings are attached tot Amogla Camp. It's a beautiful and very peaceful place (no internet might be a selling point), with lots of memories. The houses are build by a very good craftsman, probably without detailed project plans and a detailed architectural design. I wish you and your family many future happy gatherings on this place. I have one question: how is the exterior wood prepared to last so long (or have they to be repainted often)? Thanks for sharing, it's an very impressive video. 👌👌👌

Been waiting for this video! Love the idea of that camp peaceful and quite it could be amazing nice plot of land lovely cottages

Beautiful place man.. If I lived closer.. I would pay to stay there.. Huge fisherman... Been to Canada twice for fishing trips.. Glad to see you renting it out for handy work.. Great thinking bud.

I could live in one of em for the rest of my life...so beautiful

Addictive viewing Matthias. Hello from Ireland. 😊

Beautiful place. Would love to camp by the water's edge and go canoeing on that lake.

thank you , for sharing the history of amogla camp ,, amazing memory's ,,, even if just a familly /friends now,,, enjoy

I want to live in Canada. Europe is too small for me :) see you in 4-8 years !

What a beautiful place

Beautiful. I could live there full time.

Matthias, Its interesting you mentioning ash borers. Out east here in Durham, Ontario we're getting hit by them pretty hard. This spring, my town has basically purged the a huge segment of trees in order to slow the infestation. It hasn't been 2 months and already my neighbours trees are showing signs of them. Pretty terrible. I honestly hope it doesn't spread to your area.

What a beautiful place...! Love it... I wish I was in Canada...! Cheers...

Sure wish I was handy - I would love to take an opportunity like that, I don't suppose those cabins need any software? :D

Beautiful site Mattias! It's 100% understandable to be emotionally attached. Good luck with the search for help. It's too cold for me and I'm a little too old to apply. Not to mention, my wife would leave me if I tried to move us up there where it's SO frigid. LOL

I have the best idea: build a damn boat. You are the most talented woodworker I know and this would be the ultimate challenge which I´m sure you´ll master.

Beautiful place!

This is just wonderful. I'd work there for free just to enjoy the mornings looking over the lake.

Too bad, I was seriously going to ask about information on Monthly rental. It is a beautiful place.

Very cool man. Thanks for sharing it!