Canada

Canadian Scouting history through a photo gallery and stories. Photographs from personal collections of Canadian Scouts through the Years.

Resources site. Topics include: Klondike Derby, Scouting issues, spirituality, ceremonies, kit lists, Venturer and Rover bylaws.

A catalogue of badges, uniforms, memorabilia, and other items from 1908 to present.

Scouts Scope Newsletter, news, and resources including games, program ideas, Scoutmaster's Minutes, books by BP and others, and the entire Jim Speirs archives.

Index of units.

History of Scouting and current status of national Scouting organizations.

Association for Ontario and Quebec Rovers. Information about meetings.

Features The Phoenix, an Internet publication replacing The Canadian Rover Eh?.

Five local camps are on the sell-off list, but some scout leaders are fighting the plan.

SCOUT eh! is a group of registered Scouts Canada members dedicated to turning Scouts Canada into a democratic association.

Elgin Scout leaders are becoming increasingly frustrated with the "sham" process they face in an effort to overturn a Scouts Canada property review committee decision to close Camp Timken. Barely able to contain her anger, Karen Palmer, one of five local leaders working on a business plan to justify Camp Timken's continued operation, compares the exercise to "being led down the garden path." By Ian McCallum.

Scouts Canada plans to put 20 of its Ontario campgrounds on the chopping block after dwindling membership and declining revenues have forced the venerable youth organization to streamline its operations. [Paid subscription or article purchase required.]

Three sons of Boy Scout leaders killed in an electrical accident at the National Scout Jamboree in Virginia have returned home to Alaska, officials said Tuesday.

Scouts Canada says it is saddened by the deaths of four scout leaders at an international jamboree that just got underway in Virginia.

Association to further Scout badge collecting in Canada. Includes online trade catalog.

If there were a merit badge for doing more with less, Scouts Canada would have earned it long ago. By: FPNS.

Scouts Canada is looking for a few good boys and girls to join its ranks. With declining membership in Manitoba and across the country, scouting leaders in Brandon are recruiting new members. By Robson Fletcher.

An army of Guides and Scouts will be hitting city streets on Saturday to collect donations of food to help the food bank battle hunger in Regina. By Ken Gousseau.

Scouts Canada and the Delphi Group, Nexen Inc. and Alcan Inc., partners in combating climate change, have received an Honourable Mention - Partnership Award from Imagine Canada for their innovative work in launching the Climate Change Education and Action Program (CCEAP).

Scouts Canada has created a badge to show appreciation to those who have served, and those who continue to serve and protect peace and freedom in the world. In a special ceremony before the Ottawa 67's game against the Mississauga IceDogs on Friday, November 11, scouts from the 1st Manotick, 23rd Ottawa, and 3rd Orleans will present badges to Veterans at centre ice Friday night at the Civic Centre.

Resources for Rovers including ceremonies, program information, links and forums.

Big Canadian real estate is on the market. A rather sizable chunk of Lord Robert Baden-Powell's Empire is available for investors, homebuilders, fishing resort prospectors, or blacktop barons. Scouts Canada is pounding in "for sale" signs at the entrances of a number of Scout camps across the country, including at least twenty camps in Ontario. But don't worry. No Boy Scouts will mourn the loss of their summer camps, for the Boy Scouts of Canada no longer exist.

"Be prepared." That well-known motto of the Scouting movement has been adopted by millions of young people around the globe over the past century. The saying is especially appropriate now, as Scouts Canada and Girl Guides of Canada prepare to celebrate the organization's 100th anniversary in 2007. By Thomas Winterhoff.

On behalf of Her Excellency the Honorable Michaëlle Jean, C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D., Governor General of Canada and Chief Scout of Canada, Scouts Canada's Board of Governors is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Glenn Armstrong as Chief Commissioner and Chair of the Board of Governors.

The Ontario government is promoting mining by partnering with Scouts Canada on the first-ever digital prospecting specialty badge to be used in the Canadian scouting movement, Rick Bartolucci, Ontario Minister of Northern Development and Mines announced today. By David Helwig.

The Ontario government is promoting mining by partnering with Scouts Canada on the first ever digital prospecting specialty badge to be used in the Canadian scouting movement, Rick Bartolucci, Ontario Minister of Northern Development and Mines announced today.

Four Victoria scouts will receive the Queen's Venturer Award from Lt.-Gov. Iona Campagnolo today.

Adam Shepherd of Chemainus is one of a select group of scouts to earn the Queen's Venturer Award. A Chemainus master scout received the honour - the highest youth award within Scouts Canada - last week in Victoria from Iona Campagnolo, B.C.'s Lieutenant Governor. By Edward Hill.

Leadership is a focus during the heaping handful of activities offered throughout the Chinook Council Scouts Canada Summer Camp sessions. By Samara Cygman.

It wasn't the 50th anniversary celebration London's scouts' hockey league expected. Instead of celebrations and a promise of many more years to come, the focus will be on its death. By Morris Dalla Costa.

Two local Comox Valley Scout members were awarded medals last weekend for their especially good service to Scouting. They were honoured at the Scouts Canada–Cascadia Council honours and awards ceremony in Vancouver, reports Maxine McLean, Orca Coast area commissioner.

About 500 youth participated May 5 through 7 at a cubs and scouts weekend at Camp Barnard, learning new skills and meeting new people. The groups were from throughout Vancouver Island, as well as a couple groups from the mainland. All 14 scouting groups in the Greater Victoria area were represented at the three-day camp. By Paul Frey.

Scouts Canada is facing a rebellion. A faction of Scout leaders have launched a campaign to wrest control of Scouts Canada from an administration they claim will destroy the nearly century-old organization. By Jorge Barrera.

Conservative Ontario Sen. Consiglio Di Nino has no plans to back away from his Scouts Canada bill. Di Nino said the clamour of opposition coming from a group of dissident Scout leaders has not convinced him to drop Bill S-1001. Some Scout leaders claim the bill will entrench a suffocating corporate structure that will eventually lead to the organization's demise. By Jorge Barrera.

Camp fires, close friends and merit badges. Some of Dee Williams most cherished memories are from her years as a Girl Guide. Well, the girl grew up, became a school teacher, married and had her own children. But the memories never left her. And when Williams enrolled her oldest child into the like-minded Boy Scouts, it was to give him the same experiences. Then, somewhere between nine years ago and today, the mom became a Beaver leader. By Jessica Murdy.

Information resources on songs, games, camping, games, crafts and other activities for Girl Guides.

At Marymount Academy Sunday morning 36 Boy Scout Cubs got the chance to race their home made creations as part of a regional KubKar Rally.ademy Sunday morning 36 Boy Scout Cubs got the chance to race their home made creations as part of a regional KubKar Rally. By Bill Bradley.

White Rock and South Surrey scouts are hoping Peninsula couples will be in a giving mood this weekend. The scouts are holding a Valentine’s Dance and Silent Auction tonight (Feb. 10) at Crescent Beach Legion to help raise money for a leadership trip to the Canadian Jamboree in Tamaracouta, Quebec – to celebrate Scouts Canada’s 100th anniversary – this summer. By Kristine Thiessen.

Canada’s legions of Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Venturers, Rovers, Sparks, Brownies, Guides and Pathfinders are getting ready to join 25 million other young people around the world in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Scouting movement.

Fruitbelt Area of Scouts Canada will be celebrating the 150th birthday of Scouting's founder Lord Baden-Powell, as well as the 100th anniversary of Scouting, with a church service in Grimsby next week.

About a dozen badges are sewn to chaplain Frank Sarton’s shirt and each one tells a story. The story de jour comes from a purple badge that sits above his heart. By Michelle Thompson.

As part of Scouts Canada's 2007 Centennial celebrations, media are invited to two very special events in the National Capital on Saturday, February 24, 2007.

Gala's keynote speakers credit organization for giving them expertise as well as confidence. By Caroline Phillips.

Area Cub leaders receive awards for saving life of ailing colleague. By Roger Collier.

Montreal West town hall played host to at least 100 scouts last Thursday as they rallied together to mark the centennial celebration of the scouting movement. By Charles Montgomery.

Penticton Mayor Jake Kimberley signs a proclamation honouring Scouting’s 100th anniversary as he is joined by some of the members of Penticton Scouts groups.

A group of local boy scouts are sending about 100 birthday cards to a young cancer patient from Lancaster, Ont., none of them have ever met. By Scott Paradis.

According to an article his son recently read, Kenneth Edward Margeson would have been "an elder of the tribe" had he lived centuries ago. By Paul Everest.

Scouts, cubs and beavers from Scouts Canada - Merritt Trail, will be digging in to do their part tomorrow at Merritt Island as part of the opening ceremonies of Earth Day Welland.

The Klondike gold rush began in 1897 when ships brought gold-laden miners to San Francisco and Seattle from the Yukon. The press carried the story to the world and within six months, 100,000 gold-seekers headed for the Yukon.

Welland's Earth Day celebration was part part clean-up and part green-up. City councillor Paul Grenier was pleased the event accomplished what it set out to. By Derek Swartz.

In 1907, founder Robert Baden-Powell took a troop of boys camping on Brownsea Island in England. That initial group of 22 lads has now become 28 million Scouting members in 155 countries. By Sabine Boersch.

After 100 years, the Scouts may be co-ed and members may be able to earn badges for computing and snowboarding, but its basic premise remains the same.

An early-morning paddle across a still northern lake, just as the rising sun burns off the last of the fog from the surface of the water, your thoughts full of the stories, hot chocolate and marshmallows of the campfire the night before. By Stuart Laidlaw.

On April 19, members of the Kawartha Waterways Area Scouting family gathered at St. Paul's Church in Peterborough for the annual 2006/2007 Scouting year Honours and Awards dinner and presentations. By Allen Lenore.

With a shovel twice as tall as he was in one hand and a small spruce sapling in the other, eight-year-old Shawn Burnham came prepared to plant Saturday. By Galen Eagle.

Seventy-seven boys and girls from across southern Ontario were honoured for their achievements in the Scouting movement, during a special ceremony Friday in Niagara Falls. By John Robbins.

Scouts Canada honoured 77 of its outstanding local youth at the annual Chief Scout's/Queen's Venturer award ceremony Friday evening at St. Andrew's United Church in Niagara Falls.

Scouts Canada recently honoured 77 of its outstanding local youth at the annual Chief Scout's/Queen's Venturer award ceremony.

When Gordon Poole takes a trip down memory lane, he realizes how dedicated he has been to the Scouting movement. BY Monique Chiasson.

Scouts Canada's 26th annual Huck Finn Raft Race will be held June 1 to 3. Sponsored by the Trillium Highlands Area and hosted by Bobcaygeon, this event will take place at Riverview Park. It is open to registered scouting and guiding members, but the public is welcome to come and cheer them on. By Comrie Palmer.

Under the blazing sun, the Scouts marched toward the new school, leading the parade in full uniform. Arriving at the site, they took position flanking both sides of the adjoining road. As the government officials, community members and students attending the ceremony passed, each was greeted with a three-fingered Scout salute. By Craig and Marc Kielburger.

Sixty-six Scout leaders and 20 trainers participated in Wood Badge Two training at Lake of The Trees on the weekend of May 3-6.

A 33-year veteran of the Peterborough Scouts District is receiving the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award from Gov.-Gen. Michaelle Jean Friday at a ceremony in Toronto. By Reg Watson.

Brownsea Base, at the George Street wharf on Little Lake in Peterborough, the centre for Scouts Canada's Kawartha Waterways Area water skills training program, enters its 41st year on June 16 and 17. The pre-Brownsea camp will be held at Langley Park for first-year applicants to learn skills for self-contained camping that weekend. By Allen Lenore.

To celebrate 100 years of Scouting in Canada, Scouts Canada – Brampton Area will hold its Camp of the Century at Donald M. Gordon Chinguacousy Park from June 15 to 17.

The Scouts Canada Foundation today announced it will award its annual scholarships to outstanding students involved in Canadian Scouting. Criteria for selection included academic achievement, demonstrated Scouting history, involvement and achievement, and community service.

Late in the afternoon of Friday, June 8, the winds whipped trees, branches fell and rain pounded the Serpent Mounds as Scouters were beginning to arrive to set up for the first all-section camp the Kawartha Waterways had ever attempted in the same place at the same time. By Allen Lenore.

aledon council recently supported the installation of a cairn and plaque on the Caledon Trailway near the Highway 10 pedestrian bridge in honour of Scouts Canada's 100th anniversary.

Scouts Canada, now celebrating a centennial and a parallel effort to boost membership, has 102,000 members across Canada, including adult volunteers. At its height in 1963, membership was more than 315,000. By Chris Cobb.

The 1st Lakefield Sea Venturers were honoured to be presented with the 3rd Place Amory award in Canada at the Kawartha Waterways Area Centennial Camp in front of youth and leaders from all five sections, their peers, their friends and fellow Scouters. By Lenore Allen.

The group of young adventurers known as World Organization of the Scout Movement is growing up - and according to those in charge of its Canadian following, it is aging for the better. By Geoff Nixon.

The City of Dorval is proud to dedicate the Dorval Circle floral arrangement to the Scouts movement, in this its world-wide centennial celebration year.

There wasn't any knot-tying or badge-sewing, but Wednesday's fresh and pleasant morning witnessed a khaki-clad community gathered to celebrate a centennial. By Joe Couture.

Over 28 million Scouts worldwide celebrate; thousands attending CJ'07 are honoured with the presence of Lord Robert Baden-Powell's great-grandson, Adam Baden-Clay.

Over 28 million Scouts worldwide celebrate; thousands attending CJ'07 are honoured with the presence of Lord Robert Baden-Powell's great-grandson, Adam Baden-Clay.

The movement popularized by Lord Baden-Powell celebrates its centenary next year with a resurgence. By Gerry Bellett.

Canada Hosts Ten Kenyan Extension Scouting Members as Special Guests at National Jamboree; Providing Youth with Hope for the Future.

Group commissioners from Alton, Bolton, Caledon, Caledon East and Mono Mills all received a pin and a certificate signed by The Honourable Mike Colle, Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.

A young Canadian boy is bringing home a royal memory from a trip to England to celebrate the centenary of scouting. By Russ Morgan.

Scouts arrive en masse in laurentians Week full of competition and badge collecting.

Some 250 Scouts, Venturers and their leaders from Regina, Saskatoon, Weyburn, Fort Qu'Appelle, Nokomis and Swift Current are heading to Quebec for Scouts Canada's 11th Canadian Jamboree.

Steven Burgoyne has a date with the Queen of England. He’s not sure if she’s actually going make it, but early next week the local teen will be at Windsor Castle, the largest occupied castle in the world.

Brownsea Base's Advanced paddlers held their first camp of the season with a trip to Buzzard Lake on the July 6 to 8 weekend.

For more than a year, Scouting youth and adults have been preparing for the Centennial Jamboree which marks the 100th anniversary of Scouting around the world.

More than 8,000 scouts, leaders and volunteers from as far away as Africa started arriving Thursday at Quebec's Camp Tamaracouta, near Saint-Jérôme, for the Canadian Jamboree celebrating scouting's centennial year.

You wouldn't know it by looking at them, but the Boy Scouts turn 100 next week.

A young Canadian boy is bringing home a royal memory from a trip to England to celebrate the centenary of scouting.

How do you sum up an event that keeps you going day and night, introduces you to hundreds, if not thousands of people and celebrates 100 years of serving youth?

When the Centennial Jamboree opened in Camp Tamaracouta at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 25 there were thousands of excited leaders and youth realizing that they'd finally arrived. The months of fundraising and planning were over and they looked forward to a week of exciting program adventures, the hopes of meeting as many Scouting members from different countries as possible and the realization that Scouting is, indeed, a fantastic organization for youth and adults.

When a young girl fell down a hill and broke her ankle in a remote Kingston park, Mike Baskin knew exactly what to do.

Some nice weather and a strong current helped the ducks make good time on Saturday. The 18th annual Rubber Duck Race, held on the Thames River, was organized by the Chatham Kinsmen and Kinette clubs in support of the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation, as well as Scouts Canada. By Trevor Terfloth.

Olive Tree Foundation has announced that it will provide a grant to support Scouts Canada in developing a video that will encourage the creation of Scout groups in multicultural communities across the country.

The 41st season of on-the-water Scouting at Brownsea Base drew to a close on the evening of Aug. 16 with the familiar family barbecue at the Beavermead Park dining shelter.

Outdated public image doesn't describe skills, adventure group offers. By Alisom Langley.

The directors on the Board of the Regional District of East Kootenay will be making a decision this week on an application by the Cranbrook Girl Guides. The organization has asked that the zoning of a piece of property in the Cranbrook area be changed from Rural Residential Country to Public Institutional to allow for the establishment of a Girl Guide Camp on the property. By Kerstin Renner.

Today scouting is far different from what was begun as the Boy Scouts a century ago by Lord Robert Baden-Powell in England.

More than 500 boy scouts looking to pop their way into the Guinness Book of World Records came up just a few kernels short — not that critters at the Calgary Zoo minded.

Scouts struggling to find volunteers. Remember when Scouts did good deeds, helped friends and neighbours, shared stories around the campfire and just enjoyed being kids?

Who wouldn't want to give these kids a couple-a-bucks for a crisp ontario apple. Beavers, Cubs and Scouts will be handing out apples (hoping to get a donation) on Thursday and Friday evening (October, 11, 12) and on Saturday (October 13) morning at various locations across Cambridge. Any donations received from the public will go directly to individual Scout groups to help offset the costs of camping and educational programs for the young Scouts.

Summer camps and boy scouts go together like peanut butter and jam. But that combination could soon cost the scouts a lot of money if the provincial government doesn't step in. By Sean Holman.

Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaelle Jean, Governor General of Canada, will welcome 150 members of Scouts Canada from the National Capital Region to Rideau Hall in honour of the 100th anniversary of the World Scout Movement.

It's early Saturday morning. A perfect November day. The grass at Little Lake Cemetery is still crunchy to walk on, covered in a layer of frost that hasn't yet been melted away by the late morning sun. The children are bundled in jackets, some wearing hats and mitts. By Lauren Gilchrist.

The 21st Oshawa Venturer company will be honoured by Lieutenant-Governor David Onley at Queen's Park in Toronto on Nov. 17.

Scouts Canada, the country's leading youth organization, could face bankruptcy, according to a watchdog group.

$6-million pension shortfall alarms watchdog. Scouts Canada, the country's leading youth organization, could face bankruptcy, according to a watchdog group.

For every ton of paper used on a customer's behalf, St. Joseph Communications facilitates the planting of three tree seedlings through Scouts Canada.

Scouts Canada, the country's leading youth organization, could face bankruptcy, according to a watchdog group. By Kent Spencer.

When Adam Baden-Clay, 32, emerged out of a mud session dripping head to toe this summer at camp Tamaracouta, he did not look the part for a hug, but that is exactly what a Dorval beaver scouts leader gave him. By Raffy Boudjikanian.

SolHuma, the Canadian firm who invented the Vital Stove(TM), announces that is has reached a strategic partnership with the Association des scouts du Canada (ASC), a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), a non-governmental international organization based in Geneva that is comprised of 28 million scouts.

The scouting movement has been facing a general decline in New Brunswick, but that doesn't appear to be the case in the Kennebecasis Valley.

West Vancouver Scouts have a good Samaritan to thank for the return of $700 earned by selling Christmas trees outside in the cold. By Bethany Lindsay.

She's a worthy recipient of an award. Scout's honour. Scouting groups in Mississauga will honour Mayor Hazel McCallion with a Centennial Medal in a ceremony today at the Logos Baptist Church in Meadowvale.

At 16, Edward King — once a violent, at times suicidal, 11-year-old — has become a person others can admire, as Shelley Page explains

Members of the 1st Lakefield Viking Rover Crew and their group commissioner held a Viking dinner in honour of Scouters Bill ("Skip") and Chris Karam at the Lakefield Scout Ship on Saturday, Dec. 29 beginning at 4 p.m.

Great-grandson of Scouts’ founder, wife bound for Kenya to work with youth.

110 in Ontario already getting 11 paid holidays, but review could occur. When it comes to Ontario's controversial Family Day holiday, staff at Scouts Canada should abide by Lord Robert Baden-Powell's motto: Be prepared.

An unique local program that grooms potential recruits for a career in policing graduated more Humber College students last month. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair and Deputy Chief Kim Derry inducted a new group of Toronto Police Service (TPS) 22 Division Rovers in a ceremony at Toronto police headquarters last month.

There's not many things to make from a four ounce block of wood. But add some spokes and four plastic wheels and you have all the makings of Kub Kar.

For more than a century, scouting has provided outdoor adventures for boys and girls as young as five years old.

For the past 40 years, few things have given David Bentley a feeling of more pride than wearing his scouting uniform.

Francis Martens-Poole, a Scouts Canada Commemorative Centennial Medal recipient, was in the Scouting movement even as a baby.

Some of Niagara's youth will be racing 18-wheelers on Saturday. Not to worry, however. The vehicles are made of plastic and wood and are only 11.5 centimetres tall.

On Saturday, March 15, the Scouting groups in Kawartha Waterways Area will participate in the eighth annual Lorraine Hannah Memorial Food Drive.

Scouts Canada has been fully co-ed for 10 years, but many people can't seem to give up the old name – so a friendly reminder was in order

Aaron Minnis is no cub when it comes to scouts. The 11-year-old has one more accolade to add to an already historic Scouts Canada career, this time a merit of achievement from city hall.

Georgetown and Acton Beavers, Cubs and Scouts will help plant 3,000 trees, as part of the national Scoutrees for Canada program, on Saturday, April 19, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Dufferin's Acton Quarry.

Two Welland scouts are among the first to receive Scouts Canada's newest medal. Doug Stanyar and Greg White received the Medal of the Maple Wednesday.

Scouts and Guides to plant 20,000 trees across Canada. GM Canada has kicked off Earth Week by extending a helping hand to Scouts Canada and Girl Guides of Canada to the tune of $100,000 for tree-planting initiatives.

Little Shaw Cummings-Boase gripped the shovel, stuck it in the pile of dirt and teetered toward the white oak tree before steadying herself to cover the roots.

David Fry's 17-year involvement in local Scouting has earned him national honours. The 23-year-old Plainfield resident is the first recipient in the Algonquinte Scouting area of a new national award, the Medal of the Maple for Distinguished Youth Service.

Saturday featured the 6th-Annual Scouts Canada Windake Shores Area soapbox derby.

Two Calgary citizens were awarded in mid-April for their outstanding service and dedication to the Scouting movement by Scouts Canada.

Many young people know about the world's problems but never hear about solutions. The Global Development Village is a welcome change! Over 2000 young people will gather at Toronto's Downsview Park on May 6, 7, 8 and 10, to take part in interactive and empowering workshops that will inspire them as future leaders.

More than 300 new trees were planted in Cornwall Saturday as two very different groups did their part to keep the city's green space growing.

The next time the Big One hits - tornado, flood, or another kind of disaster - children in khaki shirts and neckerchiefs may be calling the shots.

Members of the 4th Petawawa Scout Group pitched in to assist the Base Construction Engineers with their reforestation plans.

Ten young men and women last week received the Ontario Medal for Young Volunteers for their exceptional volunteerism, in activities ranging from distributing food for those in need to organizing fund-raising drives for a school in India for HIV-positive children.

When most people think of scouting, they tend to think of youth hiking through the woods, camping by a crystal clear lake, and standing at attention in their uniforms at a ceremony. No one thinks of scouting as a business, but it really is.

Her name was Margaret Eleanor Josephine Wright, but to boys young and old she was simply "Raksha," named after the protective mother wolf in The Jungle Book.

It's been more than 50 years since Tom Vella-Zarb was involved with scouts in his homeland of Malta.

The 21st Waterloo Scout Troop won the knot-tying trophy at the 2007 Owen Sound Winter Camporee. The annual camporee, now in its 44th year, played host to over 500 scouts from Ontario and nearby U.S. states.

Cubs learn many valuable lessons, like how to build a fire and paddle a canoe. By Jennifer Ormston.

I was looking through some old Central Kings District scrapbooks from 20 years ago, and I found some interesting items. Central Kings District had many great scouters over the years, and I would like to share comments from three of the original founders of scouting in Sussex and area.

Five members of the 1st Whycocomagh Scout Troop were given the Chief Scout’s award in April.

The weekend weather forecast predicted rain, rain, rain for the Miramichi area. It was not what we'd hoped for in our plans to canoe the mighty Southwest Miramichi River in May.

200 take part in Algonquinte Cuboree. Sometimes soggy and constantly buggy conditions didn't deter Wolf Cubs and other Scouting members from enjoying their special weekend outdoors.

When a new organization is created, a suitable name for the organization must be created as well. When Sir Robert Baden-Powell started an outdoor program for young boys in 1907, he based it on the training program that new army scouts took, and the program became known as Boy Scouts.

Courses offered for children by Brownsea Base. The seemingly endless network of lakes and rivers in the Kawarthas is a playground for those interested in learning how to canoe or kayak.

Thank you to those Scouters who showed up to help go through some of the “stuff” (no other word could possibly describe the odd bits and pieces of craft supplies, old flag poles, displays, piles of old event badges, posters, and of course, mugs, mugs and more mugs!).

Time is growing short for Sunnidale Park's Scout Hall. It becomes the city's responsibility again on June 30, and is to be demolished.

City Police would like to advise the public that they received information from the Executive Director of Scouts Canada for Northern Ontario that he received information that there is an individual that has been going door to door in our local area, wearing a Boy Scout or Cub type of uniform selling apples. The information provided is that the person, a male, is being driven around in a black SUV operated by a female driver.

Every summer for the past 30 years children from all over Ontario gather in a 150-year-old barn just outside Acton to camp and swim, make crafts and make friends. Despite its long history and deep roots in the community, it remains a secret to most of Brampton.

Last week I pointed out that the tradition that scouting began in Port Morien in 1908 is strong. To commemorate the event, the village has planned four days of celebrations from July 10-13.

All three said they had no idea the award was coming. Rachel Northey, 18, Tyler Lewis, 16, and Jordan Weller, 16, all youth members of the Kawartha Waterways branch of Scouts Canada, each received a Canada Day Youth Award from Canadian Heritage during a surprise ceremony yesterday by Little Lake Marina.

Too often we read about young people in the newspaper while shaking our heads and worrying about the future of our society. Stories of teenagers beating other teenagers, of excessive noise, litter and vandalism around high schools, and of young offenders in the justice system give a negative image to those aged 12 to 19.

Since 1950, the Canadian Scout Brotherhood Fund has supported community development projects carried out in Third World countries. The Scouts Canada International Relations Committee administers this fund, and the World Scout Bureau in Geneva, Switzerland, suggests projects that need funding.

Devon Campbell of Port Hope recently received the Duke of Edinburgh's award.

Staff Sgt. Dave Fitzharris of the Langley RCMP was given a Community Contribution Award this week by the Pacific Federal Council.

A Langley Mountie has been honoured for his commitment to public service and Scouts Canada.

My name is Kassandra Sewell, and I am 13 years of age. This summer, I am fortunate enough to be traveling with Scouts Canada to Great Britain for an entire month!

What you see is what you get. Sitting with Wayne and Audrey Forth in their Bracebridge home, the co-winners of the Citizen of the Year for the Town of Bracebridge, is like a breath of proverbial Muskoka air — their spirit and obvious verve for life is evident through their laughter and perpetual smiles.

The 2007-08 scouting year is in summer shutdown mode, but went out with a bang. The weekend of June 27-29, saw 250 youth and adults descend on the Yoho Scout Reserve, near Fredericton, for the NB Council Linking camp. Cubs, Scouts and Venturer groups landed Friday night, and set up their camps, keeping their fingers crossed that it wouldn't rain. On Saturday morning, 40 Beavers and adults landed for the day, with 30 coming from Moncton on a chartered bus.

All too often, the only press and publicity that young people get is negative. A lot of positive news gets passed over because it isn't sensational enough.

A cardiologist was recently threading a probe into a man's heart and chatting with the conscious patient as he worked. He knew the man on the table was a former pilot, and said his father, too, had flown in the Second World War. The Battle of Britain veteran asked if the doctor's dad had flown Spitfires. Nope. Messerschmitt 109s.

Members of the Orangeville Scout Troop braved the elements and attended the 45th annual Owen Sound Winter Camp, along with over 350 other Scouts and Venturers.

A group of 35 happy kids piled into a yellow school bus Friday morning on their way to a unique camping trip made possible by area boy scouts.

There have been hundreds of adult volunteers who have spent time working with the Sussex area Scouts Canada groups over the years. Many are Sussex business owners and operators, and have provided not only time, but financial resources as well.

Many of our scouting groups are getting ready for the new 2008-09 year. There will be a booth at the upcoming Sussex registration fair, where youth can be registered and parents receive information. All local groups will have their own registration nights as well.

The Fredericton Exhibition gives the community a chance to get out and have some fun, but it also gives some charitable organizations a financial boost.

Scouting Canada will put Wildfang Park up for sale if Kincardine Scouting can't recover from the debt racked up from repairs to Scout Hall.

Every youth organization promises to teach their participants some valuable skills. It could be how to shoot three-point baskets, stick handle around pylons or make a great tackle. While these are all admirable skills, they are hardly what are called "life skills."

Remember when scouting was about building a fire, constructing a bird feeder and hanging out in the woods?

McDonald was in Tumbler Ridge to discuss leader training, which will be offered in Prince George in early October and again in November.

It's still not too late for parents to register their children -- or themselves -- for the local Scouts and Guides for the upcoming winter sessions.

As youth return to regular Beaver, Cub, Scout, Venturer and Rover meetings across Fruitbelt Area, they also begin their biggest fund-raising campaign of the year: popcorn sales.

Scouts make friends with Mother Nature on hikes, in tents, canoes and kayaks, and make lasting friendships among themselves.

A good volunteer is always seeking ways to improve themselves through courses, lectures or practice. Scouts Canada has a laid out training program for their adult volunteers and it consists of the three methods I mentioned.

Organization wants to show it's still relevant for youth. The faded photographs that line the walls at the Niagara Scouting Museum depict a simpler time.

If it's fall, it must mean it's time for Scouts Canada's annual Popcorn Blitz.

It was sweet, natural goodness versus chocolate-minty fun as scouts peddling apples went up against Girl Guides selling cookies on their regular fund-raising drives yesterday.

Keene resident was in crash on Sunday. A 19-year-old Keene man has died from injuries he suffered in an ATV accident on Sunday.

Buy an apple a day and keep the Scouts away on camping trips.

In the fall of 1932, the first Scouts Canada Apple Day was held in Saint John.

Teenage scouts in Britain may be given sexual counselling. Their world-famous motto is "Be prepared." Now, teenage scouts in Britain may be taken to sexual-health clinics to better educate them on sex, according to new guidance issued yesterday by the Scout Association.

Like all youth organizations, Scouts Canada is constantly coming up with new and fresh ideas, trying to keep their youth programs meaningful in modern times.

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