Scouting in Canada
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The Scout and Guide movement in Canada is served by several organizations with various supernational alignments.
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[edit] WOSM member associations
In Canada, two Scouting associations cooperate for membership in the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM):
Canada is the only country that has more than one WOSM member association without a national federation. Scouts Canada and Association des Scouts du Canada send a joint delegation to meetings of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. This is coordinated through the Committee on Cooperation.
Affiliated to Scouts Canada are the Salvation Army Life Saving Scouts.
[edit] WAGGGS member association
The Guiding association within the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is Girl Guides of Canada.
[edit] UIGSE member associations
There is one association affiliated to the UIGSE, with a single group in Toronto:
[edit] WFIS member associations
Canada has several associations which trace their roots to the Baden-Powell Scouts in the United Kingdom. They form the Canadian Federation of Independent Scouting, which is a member of the World Federation of Independent Scouts.
Members of the federation are
- BPSA - British Columbia
- BPSA - Manitoba
- BPSA - Newfoundland and Labrador
- BPSA - Nova Scotia
- BPSA Saskatchewan
- Independent Scouting Association
- Traditional Explorers Association Council of Ontario
[edit] Independent associations
There are also a number of independent Scouting associations active in Canada. Among them are
- Association de Scoutisme d'Actions
- Association Québécoise des Aventuriers de Brownsea
- BPSA Canada, which is no longer connected to the UK Baden-Powell Scouts or the above mentioned groups.
- Plast - Ukrainian Youth Association of Canada
- Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego Canada (Polish Scouting Association in Canada Inc.), a Polish emigré organization, not connected to Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego in Poland.
- ZHR Polish Scouts of Canada
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[edit] See also
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