Scouting in Canada __ Henry Lam (64)

Scouting in CanadaI ran one of the largest Scout Troops (with over 100 Scouts and Leaders) in Toronto in the 1970s and 1980s.  I had 9 Assistant Scout Leaders, 1 Scouter-in-Training and 2 Troop Leaders.  My assistants each specialize in an area, including backpacking, winter-camping, canoeing, rock-climbing, wildness survival, pioneering, orienteering, sailing, CB radios communication, and activities programming.  I even had a young medical doctor (Head of Emergency Section of Scarborough General Hospital) as an Assistant Leader. We shot white-water rapids with canoes. We built igloos and actually slept in them at -20 C.

We drove and camped across Canada many times.  We even went to compete in orienteering meets organized by the US Military Academy at West Point, New York.  Scouting in Canada is much more diversified and fun.

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