Girl Guides of Canada - Guides du Canada is the national Guiding association of Canada. Guiding in Canada started in 1910 and was among the founding members of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1928. The association counts about 160,000 members (as of 2005).

History

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Mary Malcolmson organized the first Canadian Girl Guides Company to be officially registered in St. Catharines, Ontario; their registration is dated January 1910. A park in St. Catharines was later named for Mary Malcolmson. Other Guide Companies were registered later in 1910: Toronto, Moose Jaw and Winnipeg. The First Toronto Company held the first-recorded Girl Guide Camp in Canada on the banks of the Credit River in June of 1911. By 1912, the movement had spread to all parts of Canada, and had become so popular that on July 24 1912 Agnes Baden-Powell created Lady Mary Pellatt "Chief Commissioner of the Dominion of Canada Girl Guides". Many Guide events were held at her home, Casa Loma, in Toronto. It is now a tourist attraction with a special Girl Guide display. In 1917 the Canadian Government passed an Act of Parliament approving the Constitution of the Canadian Girl Guides Association as it was then known.

In 1918 Newfoundland's first Guide Company was formed, although the Province itself, did not become part of Canada until 1949.

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