{"id":645,"date":"2014-11-04T13:55:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T13:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/scouting\/?p=645"},"modified":"2014-11-04T13:56:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T13:56:04","slug":"scouting-in-canada-__-henry-lam-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/scouting\/2014\/11\/04\/scouting-in-canada-__-henry-lam-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Scouting in Canada __ Henry Lam (64)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/scouting\/files\/2014\/11\/Scouting-in-Canada.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/scouting\/files\/2014\/11\/Scouting-in-Canada.jpg\" alt=\"Scouting in Canada\" width=\"160\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a>I ran one of the largest Scout Troops (with over 100 Scouts and Leaders) in Toronto in the 1970s and 1980s. \u00a0I had 9 Assistant Scout Leaders, 1 Scouter-in-Training and 2 Troop Leaders. \u00a0My assistants each specialize in an area, including backpacking, winter-camping, canoeing, rock-climbing, wildness survival, pioneering, orienteering, sailing, CB radios communication, and activities programming. \u00a0I 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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">We drove and camped across Canada many times. \u00a0We even went to compete in orienteering meets organized by the US Military Academy at West Point, New York. \u00a0Scouting in Canada is much more diversified and fun.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran one of the largest Scout Troops (with over 100 Scouts and Leaders) in Toronto in the 1970s and 1980s. \u00a0I had 9 Assistant Scout Leaders, 1 Scouter-in-Training and 2 Troop Leaders. \u00a0My assistants each specialize in an area, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/scouting\/2014\/11\/04\/scouting-in-canada-__-henry-lam-64\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memory","tag-henry-lam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}