Scouting in Canada

The Scout and Guide movement in Canada is served by many separate organizations, some with various national and international affiliations.

In Canada, two Scouting associations cooperate for membership in the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM):

Canada is the only country that has more than one WOSM member association without a national federation. Scouts Canada and Association des Scouts du Canada send a joint delegation to meetings of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. This is coordinated through the Committee on Cooperation.

Affiliated to Scouts Canada are the Salvation Army Life Saving Scouts.

The Guiding association within the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is Girl Guides of Canada.

There is one association affiliated with the UIGSE-FSE, with two groups in Toronto two in Ottawa, one in Midland and one in Quebec City:

Canada has several associations which trace their roots to the Baden-Powell Scouts in the United Kingdom. Some of them are members of the World Federation of Independent Scouts.

The Traditional Explorers Association Council of Ontario (also known as "BPSC Canada") is no longer a member of the WFIS.

There are also a number of independent Scouting associations active in Canada. Among them are

According to the book 75 Years of Scouting in Canada, the first Scouting groups in Canada were founded in 1908, the same year Baden-Powell's book, Scouting for Boys was published. St. Catharines and Merrickville are mentioned as among the locations of the first troops.

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