A picture tour of the (Ontario) Gilwell Reunion through the years as I and my friends see it. Fond memories all, and hillarious fun. A GREAT way to get ...

Section Two The ideas of the movement also caught on among girls, and they very much wanted to be part of it. However, as children's activities were usually gender exclusive at the time, the idea of girls joining Boy Scouts just wasn't acceptable. Girls had to form their own group, which became known as Girl Guides. Here's an account of how one Girl Guide troop started: In the early spring of ...

The beginnings of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides can be traced back to events during the Boer War. This war took place between England and what is now known as South Africa, at the end of the nineteenth century, and beginning of the twentieth. Lord Baden-Powell's Boy Scout Band, ca. 1908 G-07476 An officer named Robert Baden-Powell was assigned to an area called Mafeking. It was a difficult area to ...