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Revised August 5, 1995

Welcome to Canada and the Unoffical Scouting in Canada Web Site. This page on Scouting is purely an invention of my own and has nothing to do with either Scouts Canada National or any Provincial Councils, although Scouts Canada and any other scouting or guiding group, provincial or local, is/are welcome to post documents. See Reference, Events and Information section below for access to submission form.

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COMMENTS > June 1, 1995 - To all those of you who have sent in comments about the Unofficial Scouting in Canada Web pages - many thanks. I am afraid that because there have been so many, it would take more time than I can spare to reply to each and every one of you - so please accept this notice as a thank you and keep the comments coming in.

In the Foreword to his book SCOUTING FOR BOYS, Robert Baden-Powell wrote:

I WAS A BOY ONCE.
The best time I had as a boy was when I went about as a sea scout with my four brothers on the sea around the coast of England. Not that we were real Sea Scouts, because Sea Scouts weren't invented in those days. But we had a sialing boat of our own on which we lived and cruised about, at all seasons and in all weathers, and we had a jolly good time - taking the rough with the smooth.

Then in my spare time as a schoolboy I did a good lot of scouting in the woods in the way of catching rabbits and cooking them, observng birds and tracking animals, and so on. Later on, when I got into the Army, I had endless fun big-game hunting in the jungles in India and Africa and living among the backwoodsmen in Canada. Then I got real scouting in South African campaigns.

Well, I enjoyed all this kind of life so much that I thought, "why should not boys at home get some taste of it too?" I knew that every true red-blooded boy is keen for adventure and open-air life, and so I wrote this book to show you how it could be done.

And you fellows have taken it up so readily that now there are not only hundreds of thousands of Boy Scouts but millions about the world!

Of course, a chap can't expect to become a thorough backwoodsman all at once without learning some of the difficult arts and practices that the backwoodsman uses. If you study this book you will find tips in it showing you how to do them - and in this way you can learn for yourself instead of having a teacher to show you how.

Then you will find that the object of becoming an able and efficient Boy Scout is not merely to give you fun and adventure but that, like the backwoodsman, explorers, and frontiersmen whom you are following, you will be fitting yourself to help your country and to be of service to other people who may be in need of help. That is what the best men are out to do.

A true Scout is looked up to by other boys and by grown-ups as a fellow who can be trusted, a fellow who will not fail to do his duty however risky and dangerous it may be, a fellow who is jolly and cheery no matter how great the difficulty before him.

I've put into this book all that is needed to make you a good Scout of that kind. So, go ahead, read the book, practise all that it teaches you, and I hope you will have half as good a time as I have had as a Scout.

Baden-Powell of Gilwell
Chief Scout of the World.

Reference, Events and Information.

green ball Eurofax Information Bulletins about scouting in Europe - Ray Saunders.
green ball 38th. Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) is from 21st. to 22nd. October 1995. For more information e-mail - Richard Middelkoop

green ball A listserver for Canada To subscribe send message to listserv@cuug.ab.ca with a message subscribe SCOUTSCAN-L John Smith. Substitute John Smith with your name. Please note that for the time being there are NO Archives, so please do not send a message to the listserv for them. I will send message to list when they are available. new

green ballThe Canadian Leader Magazine is published 10 times a year by:

Canyouth Publications Ltd.
P.O. Box 5112
Stn, F Ottawa, ON K2C 3H4

Yearly Subscriptions:
Registered Members of Scouts Canada $ 7.49 (includes GST)
Non-Members (living in Canada) $10.70 (includes GST)
Outside of Canada $15.00
(Subscription requests should also include, name, address and postal code) - prices subject to change without notice

 green ball Leader magazine articles - games, programs and other related files/articles
green ball Please visit the Guest Book
green ball Section Program Ideas - Being developed. Please Mail program submissions or
green ball Send in Comments, suggestions, program ideas or guest book information using a Form
green ball Bulletin Board- Mail in a message for posting!
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