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Program. Girl Guides of Canada is the largest organization for women and girls in Canada. The membership is organized into different branches according to age. These are: Sparks (ages 5 and 6), Embers (known as Brownies before 2023) (ages 7 and 8), Guides (ages 9–11), Pathfinders (ages 12–14), and Rangers (15-17+).
United Kingdom (origin) Founded. 1909. Founder. Agnes Baden-Powell. Scouting portal. Girl Guides (known as Girl Scouts in the United States and some other countries) is a worldwide movement, originally and largely still designed for girls and women only. The movement began in 1909, when girls requested to join the then-grassroots Boy Scout ...
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. Numerous Francophone and Francophone Catholic scout organizations were established in Canada from the 1910s. [6] See also Association des Scouts du Canada.
Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA), commonly referred to as Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. [2] It was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, a year after she had met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting [3] (formally Boy Scouts).
The World Conference is the governing body of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and meets every three years. If a country has more than one association, the associations form a federation for coordination and world representation. As the Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting movement spread, independent national Guiding associations ...
Guiding 2010 Centenary. The Guiding 2010 Centenary consisted of celebrations around the world in which Girl Guides and Girl Scouts celebrated 100 years of the world Guide and Scout movement. It took place over three years, 2010-2012, reflecting the founding dates of many World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts member organisations.
World Thinking Day. World Thinking Day, formerly Thinking Day, is celebrated annually on 22 February by all Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. [1] It is also celebrated by Scout and Guide organizations around the world. [2] It is a day when they think about their "sisters" (and "brothers") in all the countries of the world, the meaning of Guiding ...
Originally, there was only a single section for all members of the Scouting (Scouts) and Guiding (Girl Guides and Girl Scouts) Movements. Typically, these were for 11–17 year olds, although the exact ages varied between the countries and organisations. [citation needed] Within the first twenty-five years of Scouting its founder, Robert Baden ...