Cottage Dreams Cancer Recovery Initiative is a registered charity that offers recent cancer survivors the opportunity to spend a week at a private, donated cottage to reconnect and rejuvenate with family and friends after successfully completing treatment. For over a century, Canadian families have been finding peace, tranquility and inspiration in cottage country. Cottage Dreams was created with this in mind.

Last updated August 22, 2010

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The Events page has been updated with our FALL EVENTS! Please click here.

We are looking for ideas for a 2011 winter event either in TO or in cottage country.  Please email info@cottagedreams.org with any ideas.

Bring it on!  Please click here.

See what the party looked like and join us in August for our cottage country parties. Please click here.

We have many opportunities to volunteer this summer.  We need people for July 23-25 and August 20 in Muskoka and August 20 in Haliburton.  For more information, please click here.

You can sponsor a Day At The Lake for $100.00 or Sponsor a Visit for $500.00. When you do, your sponsored family will send you a note after the visit to directly share the impact your donation and the program had on them.

To sponsor, please click here

Thank you to all who took their licence with BoaterExam.com in 2009 to support Cottage Dreams. BoaterExam.com is once again supporting Cottage Dreams again in 2010 when you take your boat exam online Find out more

Cottage Owner Information: We are in need of Sunday to Friday weeks in July and August.  If you can help, please contact Debbie.

Application Information:  We are still accepting applications for cottage visits in 2010. Please click on the Visitor section for an online application.

For more information please contact us at 705-457-9100 info@cottagedreams.org

Cottage Life: Check us out in editor Penny Caldwell's blog. We were featured at the 2010 Spring Cottage Life Show.

Please visit www.cottagecountry.com and when you use their service you will help raise funds for Cottage Dreams.

To listen to our new PSA radio spot, please click here.  Thank you Moose FM for your ongoing support.

Founder Seana O'Neill interview for Muskoka television. Please click here to view.

Coast to Coast Against Cancer Foundation recently donated $25,000 to support our outreach to pediatric cancer patients in Northern Ontario and the Interlink Nurses who make their journey easier.  Thank you for your support.

Cottage Dreams named one of the top 20 ways to do good by More magazine at More.ca

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For more information please contact us at 705-457-9100 info@cottagedreams.org

View TV clips, magazine articles, newsletters and interviews
Go to Media Features.

A research report done by Sue Keller-Olaman, Ph.D. for Ontario Breast Cancer Community Research Initiative at Sunnybrook and Women’s College Hospitals to review the benefits of the Cottage Dreams program
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Please become a financial donor. You can Help a Family Celebrate Cancer Recovery at the Cottage with your generous donation. This year you can Sponsor a Day at the Lake for $100.00.  A unique gift option that will make an entire family feel better after cancer treatment.

Give in honour of those you love, those who want to make a difference - because we have all been touched by cancer.

Please donate and help us prepare for the 2010 programs by clicking here.

Individually, with your family or at your workplace; you can make a direct impact by sponsoring an individual family on their journey from cancer patient to cancer survivor!

A Cottage Donor's Experience "I write this email to explain that one donates not expecting anything in return, but you never know what can happen.  A very surreal connection happened between Susan and I that week.  She ended up with time to relax and pick up an old hobby, and I ended up with some beautiful memories!" Read more of this wonderful letter A Recent Testimonial "Just wanted to thank you for your role in organizing this amazing program.  I was able to relax, read and draw at the cottage and not think about my appointment schedule.  Sincere thanks to the donor of the cottage...their unbelieveable generosity is overwhelming.  They obviously trust in the good of others, which encourages me to do likewise.  Amazing." Sincerely, Donna Penny's Blog Cottage Life Magazine Cottage Dreams and lake groups help cancer survivors "Today I give the floor, er, deck to Seana O’Neill, the irrepressible force behind Cottage Dreams, a program that supports recovering cancer patients."... Read more | Download PDF "On my way home from Halifax on Monday night, I ran into Seana O’Neill at Air Canada’s baggage carousel in Toronto…" Read More | Download PDF   We're on FACEBOOK and TWITTER Join our groups online.