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Top: Recreation: Scouting: Regional: North_America

Before making your submission please review the topical sub-categories. Submit your site to this category only if it does not fit in any of the subject or topic categories of Recreation/Scouting.

Group and Council sites are to be listed under the name of the particular Scouting or Guiding association listed in Recreation/Scouting/Organizations. Follow the @links listed on this page to reach those association categories.

This category is for web pages relating to Scouting in North American countries.

Canada

Before making your submission please review the topical sub-categories. Submit your site to this category only if it does not fit in any of the subject or topic categories of Recreation/Scouting.

Group and Council sites are to be listed under the name of the particular Scouting or Guiding association listed in Recreation/Scouting/Organizations. Follow the @links listed on this page to reach those association categories.

This category is for Canadian Scouting. Scouting is an educational movement for young people with over 250,000 members in Canada. Scouting was established in the UK by Lord Baden-Powell 1907 and quickly spread around the world. Earl Grey, the Governor-General of Canada, at the request of Lord Baden-Powell became the first Chief-Scout of Canada in 1910.

Greenland

Submit sites from Greenland groups or about Greenland scouting in English. Sites in Danish, Greenlandic or aboriginal languages are to be listed under World category, an exception being made for official national sites.
Scouting in Greenland or about Greenland scouts.

Mexico

Sites must be in English or have significant English content. Spanish language sites are to be listed under World: Español: Tiempo libre: Escultismo or World: Español: Tiempo libre: Escultismo: Grupos: México
This category is for sites relating to Scouting in Mexico.

United States

Submit sites concerning Scouting in the United States dealing with Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting generally and also U.S. scouting web sites for which there is no other appropriate category within Scouting.

National Scouting organizations including auxiliary organizations, should be listed under
United States Organizations.

Group and Council Sites belonging to the BSA should be listed at
Boy Scouts of America.

Group and Council sites belonging to the GSUSA should be listed under
Girl Scouts of the USA.

Topical sites for Events, Campsites, History, etc. should be submitted to the topical categories and, if so sub-divided, to the United States sub-category of the appropriate topical category.

This category is dedicated to Scouting in the United States. Boy Scouting was founded by Ernest Thompson Seton on the English model of Lord Robert Baden-Powell. The Boy Scouts of America was first incorporated on February 8, 1910 and subsequently chartered by Congress in 1916 as a private organization. The Girl Scouts were founded by Juliette Low at Savannah in 1912 based on her experiences with scouting in the United Kingdom. The Boy and Girl Scouts comprise the largest youth organizations in the United States working to provide an educational program for children and young adults to build character, to train in the responsibilities of participating citizenship, and to develop personal fitness.

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