 From the 1940s until at least the mid-1960s, a girls' camp, Camp Centennial, occupied a large piece of property facing the mainland village of Island Grove.Vern and Marion Hickingbottom purchased the camp in the early 1950s from the founding owners, named Henderson, who remained in a cottage next to the camp for many years.Local first nations people from the Porte, Bigcanoe and McCue families worked at the camp and operated a popular tuck shop on the island; many participated in the annual Snake Island Regatta.