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Scouts Canada
File:Canada Scouts.svg
Headquarters1345 Baseline Road
LocationOttawa
CountryCanada
FoundedOctober 30, 1946
Membership70,091 youth
22,210 adults
(June 2, 2008)[1]
Chief ScoutMichaëlle Jean
Chief CommissionerGlenn Armstrong
Website
http://www.scouts.ca
 Scouting portal

Scouts Canada is a Canadian Scouting association that, in affiliation with the French-language Association des Scouts du Canada, is a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). Scouts Canada provides programmes for young people, male and female, ages 5 to 26.

Program

File:ScoutsYorkminster.jpg
Canoeing, Scouts Canada, Toronto Troop, 1st Yorkminster, Toronto Ontario, 1978. Photo by Wayne Ray.

Program sections

Scouts Canada has five program sections:

Programs are open to males and females.

Special Programs

  • MedVents (Medical Venturers) is a new program that consists of Venturers and Rovers that learn and provide first-aid.[2]

Short-term Programs

  • SCOUTSabout

The SCOUTSabout program aims to fulfill Scouting's mission with those children who are not members of a Scouting organization.[3] SCOUTSabout is implemented in 3-month long modules, often after school, to appeal to those families who do not want or can not commit to year-round activities.[3][4] Theme based, the focus is on structured play and learning by doing without uniforms, badge programs and ceremonies.[3][4] SCOUTSabout is for children between 5 and 10 years old.[3][4]

  • Extreme Adventure

Extreme Adventure offers the opportunity for young people aged from 14 to 17, to plan and participate in a variety of short-term adventure-based activities.[4] Example activities are: hiking, long-term camping and travelling abroad to participate in humanitarian projects.[4] The program seeks to realise Scouting's mission with non-members.[3] There is no uniform and are no ceremonies associated with this program.[3] It is designed to include development of leadership skills and self-esteem and the particiaption in community projects that is also offered through the ordinary programs.[3] Extreme Adventure is based on the Venturer Amory Adventure Award concept.[3]

Major Awards

Scouts Canada has several major awards:

  • The Chief Scout's Award was established in 1973 as the top award in the Scout section.
  • The Queen's Venturer Award is the top award in the Venturer section. In 1968, the normal upper age for members of the Scout section was reduced from 17 to 14 and the Venturer section was created for ages 14-17. As part of these changes, Queen's Scout rank was replaced with the Queen's Venturer Award.
  • The Amory Adventure Award is awarded to the Venturer company that exhibits the most initiative in conceiving, planning, and executing an outdoor adventure.

Badge Program

The Scout emblem incorporates the maple leaf of the flag of Canada with two sticks to create a stylized campfire.

Main articles: Scouts Canada Cub Badges and Scouts Canada Scout Badges

Camps

Scouts Canada operates about 200 Scout camps across Canada.[5] Well-known camps include Impeesa Extreme, Haliburton Scout Reserve, Camp Byng and Tamaracouta Scout Reserve. The Tamaracouta Scout Reserve is the oldest continually operating Scout camp in the world.

History

In the spring of 1908, just months after the book Scouting for Boys was published in England, Scouting came to Canada. Robert Baden-Powell wrote to Earl Grey, then Governor General of Canada, in 1910 to ask him to organize Scouting in Canada. Scouting was carried on as part of The Boy Scouts Association Overseas Department until The Canadian General Council of the Boy Scout Association was incorporated by an Act of the Canadian Parliament on June 12, 1914. The Canadian General Council continued to be a branch of the Boy Scout Association until October 30, 1946, when it became an independent member of the Boy Scout World Conference, now the World Organization of the Scout Movement. A subsequent amendment to the Act of Parliament changed the name to Boy Scouts of Canada. In 1976 the Scouts Canada logo was introduced and the organization, by its By-laws, adopted the name Scouts Canada. In 2007 The Boy Scouts of Canada legally changed its name to Scouts Canada.[6]

In 1972, Scouts Canada began accepting female members as part of its Rover Section. This was expanded in 1984 to include the Venturer Section. In 1992, co-ed Scouting was an option for all program sections and became policy for all sections in 1998.

Organization

Scouts Canada is divided into twenty Councils, each representing a whole province or large part thereof. Each Council is headed by a Council Commissioner appointed by the Executive Commissioner (the top staff member reporting to the Board of Governors). Councils are divided into Areas, each headed by an Area Commissioner appointed by the Council Commissioner.[7]

Scouts Canada has two affiliated Scout associations:

Canada is the only country with more than one Scouting association separately recognized by WOSM. Scouts Canada and Association des Scouts du Canada are divided by language. Some other countries have more that one Scouting association but they sometimes form a national federation to receive joint WOSM membership. 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.

Every Governor General since Earl Grey has been either the Chief Scout for Canada (prior to 1946) or Chief Scout of Canada (after 1946).

Jamborees

Canadian Scout Jamboree

A Venture Scout receives an award at the 4th Pentathlon Jamboree Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1976.

The Canadian Scout Jamboree or CJ is a jamboree run by Scouts Canada for members of the Scout and Venturer sections. The Jamboree is well known on the international Scouting scene, and will usually have several groups from other countries attending, most notable from the United States. The CJ that would normally have been held in 2005 was cancelled shortly after CJ'01 due to concerns about volunteer burnout. In 2004, CJ'07 was announced. CJ'07 is the first CJ planned to be held at a Scout camp.

List of Jamborees

World Jamborees held in Canada

Issues

Since the late 1960s, Scouts Canada has suffered from ongoing membership decline in all sections and among adults, especially in the transition between Cubs and Scouts. During this transition, Scouting's market share drops from between ten and fifteen percent of young people to less than two percent. Scouts Canada is actively working to correct this by using camping programs and increasing direct program support to front line leaders. This includes a partnership with Robert Bateman's Get to Know Program [8], a program help line [9], an award winning Climate Change program [10] and a variety of camping programs across the country [11] [12] [13]. It was also announced in the latest Leader magazine that the magazine would retool to be more of a front line leader resource.

In 1998, the Baden-Powell Scouts (BPSA) were established in Canada, rejecting the modernization of the Scout method by WOSM and Scouts Canada.[14] Scouts Canada challenged the association and successfully argued that the word "Scout", in the context of a youth organization, is a trademark held by Scouts Canada. The Baden-Powell Scouts ceased operation following that decision and reformed as the Baden-Powell Service Association. In BC, that movement serves roughly 50 youth under the age of 18 [15].

See also

References

  1. ^ "Scouts Canada Membership 2007-2008" (PDF). Scouts Canada. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
  2. ^ Scouts Canada - Official National Web Site: Rovers vow to serve and protect
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Francis, Ross (June/July 2002). "It's All About Mission" (PDF). The Leader. pp. 8–9. Retrieved 2007-03-05. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ a b c d e "Short-term Programs". Scouts Canada. Retrieved 2007-03-05.
  5. ^ Scout Camps Directory - ScoutDocs
  6. ^ Scouts Canada Act
  7. ^ Boy Scouts of Canada - By-law No. 2
  8. ^ Get to Know Program
  9. ^ program help line
  10. ^ Climate Change Resources
  11. ^ Chinook Council
  12. ^ Greater Toronto Council
  13. ^ Camp Tamaracouta
  14. ^ BPSA Canada federation
  15. ^ BPSA British Columbia
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