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Milestones of the Movement

1857 Feb.22 Birth of Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Paddington, London.
1870 Started his boarding school experience at Charterhouse.
1876 Commissioned 2/Lt. in the 13th Hussars - Posted to India.
1889 Birth of Olave St. Clair Soames.
1899 Siege of Mafeking ended - B-P was made Major General (Aids to Scouting was published)
1907 July 31st. 21 boys taken to Brownsea Island for first Boy Scout Camp (Scouting for Boys published)
1908 Scouting started in Canada
1909 Sept.4th. First Scout Rally at Crystal Palace (11,000 Scouts attended)
1909 Oct. - Knighted, B-P gave up the army for full time scouting
1910 Girl Guides was founded (B-P's sister Agnes), B-P made his first visit to Canada
1911 Policy-Organization and Rules published. Canadian Scouts attend coronation of King George V
1912 On a trip to Trinidad, met Olive St. Clair Soames and married her.
1913 July 11-21. First Canadian Leader Training Course held at St. Andrew's College, Toronto
1914 Boy Scouts of Canada was incorporated by act of parliament. Experimental Cub Program started in Goderich, Ontario
1916 Wrote the "Wolf Cub Handbook", Cubbing officially started in Canada
1917 Introduction of Sea Scout and Rover Scout programs
1918 Wrote "Rovering to Success"
1919 Gilwell Park donated by duBois MacLaren
1920 B-P proclaimed Chief Scout of the World, First World Jamboree, England
1922 20 leaders attended the 1st Can. Wood Badge Course in Ottawa
1924 2nd World Jamboree - Denmark, 1st & 2nd Canadian staffed Wood Badge Courses held
1929 3rd World Jamboree - England, B-P created a Baron with the title Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell
1932 First Apple Day was held in Canada
1933 4th World Jamboree - Hungary
1935 B-P's last visit to Canada
1936 Blue Springs Scout Reserve was purchased
1937 5th World Jamboree - Holland
1941 B-P died in retirement in Kenya at age 84, buried at Nairobi
1947 6th World Jamboree - France
1949 1st Canadian Scout Jamboree held at Connaught Ranges outside Ottawa
1951 7th World Jamboree held in Austria
1953 2nd Canadian Jamboree at Connaught Ranges
1955 8th World Jamboree - Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
1957 9th World Jamboree (Jubilee Jamboree) - England
1959 10th World Jamboree - Philippines
1961 3rd Canadian Jamboree - Connaught Ranges
1963 11th World Jamboree - Greece
1967 12th World Jamboree - USA, Venturer Program introduced, Canada's Centennial Year
1971 13th World Jamboree - Japan
1974 Beaver Program started, Trees For Canada started
1975 14th World Jamboree - Norway
1977 CJ'77 - PEI
1981 CJ'81 - Alberta
1982 75th Anniversary of Scouting
1983 15th World Jamboree - Alberta, Venturers go co-ed
1985 CJ'85 - Guelph, Ontario
1987 Anniversaree Camp, Guelph (80th anniversary), 16th World Jamboree - Australia
1989 CJ'89 - PEI
1991 17th World Jamboree - Korea
1993 CJ'93 - Alberta
1995 18th World Jamboree - Holland
1997 CJ'97 - Thunder Bay

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