Scout's 45th Year Has Some Firsts
Canada’s Boy Scout membership rose from 85 729 to 187 843 in 12 years, with 14 282 volunteer leaders. This year saw 29 729 Scouts log 277 354 camper days in camps across ten provinces. Total units reached 6 358, including 3 339 Wolf Cub Packs, 2 760 Scout Troops, and 259 Rover Crews. Training courses ran for the first time in Yukon and Northwest Territories at Blue Springs Reserve near Acton. Membership includes 50 638 Boy Scouts and 88 962 Wolf Cubs, with 891 Community Groups and 199 service club sponsors.
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Canada
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Blue Springs
Acton
Hatton's Pages of the Past Distinction of Scotch Block First Settler
The Scotch Block in Esquesing emerged as a Scottish settlement after 1821 with settlers named Robertson Patterson MacNabb Fisher Laidlaw Murray Henderson Chisholm Daring Elliott Stewart Shortreed and others. Early records show James Hume and Ronald MacDonald as initial settlers. Thomas Joyce arrived with Scottish friends, and John Stewart hosted William Lyon Mackenzie who gave a rousing speech from Stewart's home. The article traces land grants, schools, notable houses, a dramatic escape from Fort Henry, and a lasting Scottish-ancestry farming community into 1954.
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Hatton County
Trafalgar
Esquesing
Sth
6Th
Ontario
Province of
James Hume
Ronald MacDonald
Streetsville
Hunter
Cummer
McGowan
Kay
Cameron
Broady
Hardy
Robertson
Patterson
MacNabb
Fisher
Laidlaw
Murray
Henderson
Chisholm
Darling
Elliott
Stewart
Shortreed
King's College
Canada Company
Thomas Joyce
The
Dundas
J. A. M. Taylor
Halton
Scotch Block
John Stewart
Craiglea
William Lyon Mackenzie
Mackenzie
William Elliott
Mac- Nabb
Mr. Elliott
Hamilton
MacNabb’s
Pioneers
Ebenezer Church
Dill Printing & Publishing Campu
Pulpwood Exports Reach Across Continent This Season
From Port Arthur district this season 45 138 cords of pulpwood have been exported. District Forester R S Hyslop of the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests says if laid end to end the logs would stretch from Montreal to Vancouver and still leave enough over to make a boom 433 miles into the Pacific Ocean.
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Port Arthur
Montreal
Vancouver
Pacific Ocean
R. S. Hyslop
Ontario Department of Lands and Forests
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Brampton
WM. C. Allan
Queen St. West
Tom Nicol
Cecil A. Carr
Optometrist
Guelph
Douglas
Tel
Icatsup
Ayilmer Onoige
BIL
SWIFT
Swift's Cleanser
California
Basket
Carolina
Scout
Blue Doll Beauty Salon
Boy’s 128
Hatton
of the
By Owen Clarke
Richard Bristol
Timothy Street
Bristol
Montgomery's Tavern
Green Bush Hotel
Montgomery
Fort Henry
Kingston
United States
Paisley
Hugh Black
Colonial Advocate
Edwin Harrop
Duncan Stewart
Willie Elliott
Joneses
Gordon Strain
Milton
Orangeville
Orangeville, Ont
Fook
London
Piccadilly Circus
Eros
Aluminum Company of Canada
Lid Alcan
SY Tires
Jers
Lorne Garner Motors Ltd
Main Street
Ont
TOTH
Main Street Acton
ALMAS
Oakville
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