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In 1917, the Parliament of Canada incorporated the organization under the name of "The Canadian Council of the Girl Guides Association". [3] This Act has only been amended twice: first in 1947 to allow for the further acquisition of property, [4] and later in 1961 to change the name to "Girl Guides of Canada" (French: Guides du Canada). [5]
Many Guide events were held at her home, Casa Loma, in Toronto. It is now a tourist attraction with a special Girl Guide display. Guiding is now served by the Guiding in Canada - Ontario Council, with 44,000 girl members, 11,000 adults, 13 Areas and 37 camps throughout Ontario.
She started the first Girl Guide company in Canada on 1910-01-11 in St. Catharines, Ontario. Malcolmson became highly involved in community endeavors: she was instrumental in founding the St. Catharines branch of the Women’s Canadian Club, the Victorian Order of Nurses and the St. Catharines Council of Women.
A Girl Guide or Girl Scout is a member of a section of some Guiding organisations who is between the ages of 10 and 14. Age limits are different in each organisation. Robert Baden-Powell chose to name his organization for girls "the Girl Guides". In the United States and several East Asian countries the term "Girl Scout" is used instead.
The program of Scouts Canada is administered through councils, (previously referred to as regions which reported to the Provincial Council, when Scouts Canada was a federated structure) with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a census metropolitan area (CMA) in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, to an entire province, the case with most councils.
Separate Canadian-originated and based organizations of boy scouts were formed as early as 1909 with some Provinces having competing organizations. The Canadian Scouts existed from 1917 to the early 1930s, mainly in Ontario. Scouts Canada was formed in 1914 as the Canadian General Council of The Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom.
Canadian Girls in Training, or CGIT, is a church-based program for girls and young women aged 11–17 throughout Canada. [1] Girls who join the CGIT vow to "Cherish Health, Seek Truth, Know God, Serve Others and thus, with [Jesus'] help, become the girl God would have me be".
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS / w æ ɡ z /) is a global association which supports the female-oriented and female-only Guiding and Scouting organizations in 153 countries. It was established in the year 1928 in Parád, Hungary.