Scouting and Guiding in Canada

Scouting and Guiding in Canada's provinces and territories

The Scout and Guide movement in Canada is served by many separate organizations, some with various national and international affiliations.

National and International affiliations

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.

WAGGGS member association

The Guiding association within the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is Girl Guides of Canada.

UIGSE member associations

There is one association affiliated with the UIGSE-FSE, with two groups in Toronto two in Ottawa, one in Midland and one in Quebec City:

WFIS member associations

Canada has several associations which trace their roots to the Baden-Powell Scouts in the United Kingdom. Some of them are members of the World Federation of Independent Scouts.

The Traditional Explorers Association Council of Ontario (also known as "BPSC Canada") is no longer a member of the WFIS.

Independent associations

There are also a number of independent Scouting associations active in Canada. Among them are

Emblems

History of Scouting in Canada

"There is evidence that a few Scouting groups started up in Canada in 1907",[1] before Robert Baden-Powell's book, Scouting for Boys was published in England in 1908.

Chums Scouts, British Boy Scouts, the World Scouts, Girl Peace Scouts and Life Saving Scouts of the Salvation Army, Boys' Brigade scouts, Church Lads' Brigade scouts and Lone Scouts of America all operated in Canada. [2] [3][4]

Separate Canadian-originated and based organizations of boy scouts were formed as early as 1909 with some Provinces having competing organizations. The Canadian Scouts existed from 1917 to the early 1930s, mainly in Ontario.

Scouts Canada was formed in 1914 as the Canadian General Council of The Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom.

Numerous Francophone and Francophone Catholic scout organizations were established in Canada from the 1910s.[5] See also Association des Scouts du Canada.

Armenian Scouts, Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian Scouts, Polish Scouts, Plast Ukrainian Scouts, Russian Scouts in Exile and Hungarian Scouts were all well established in the late 1940s.

Canadian Scouting in stamps

On 6 July 1983 Canada Post issued 'Scouting, 1908-1983' designed by François Dallaire, based on a drawing by Marc Fournier. The 32¢ stamps are perforated 13.5 and were printed by Ashton-Potter Limited.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Scouts Canada History". Scouts Canada. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
  2. ↑ Michael Foster. "CHUMS: Material on Scouting, British Boy Scouts, British Boys' Naval Brigade and the National Naval Cadets in 'Chums'". boy-scout.net. Dorset, England, UK: The British Boy Scouts and British Girl Scouts Association. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
  3. ↑ Michael Foster (2002-06-18). "The BBS Story". boy-scout.net. Dorset, England, UK: The British Boy Scouts and British Girl Scouts Association. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
  4. ↑ Lone Scout Frank Hillman, Dundas [Ontario], "SOS Plan", In: "Our Boys and the War - Lone Scouts Tell How They Are 'Doing Their Bit' for the Nation", Lone Scout Magazine, Chicago, Ill., US, Aug 31, 1918, Vol. 7, #45, p.6.
  5. ↑ Denis Poulet (1992) Scouts un jour! Une histoire du scoutisme Canadian-francais Association des Scouts du Canada, Montreal, Canada ISBN 2-920039-07-5
  6. ↑ Canada Post stamp