Baden Powell Week 1998Every year Scouts Canada's Quebec Provincial Headquarters hosts an open house in February during Baden Powell Week. The open house on February 22, 1998 featured, among many other exhibits, an outdoor camp prepared by the scouts of Riverview District's Fairview Centennial Scout Troop. Thanks to Les Wilcox, Fairview Centennial's Scout Leader, the site was set up and used by the scouts during the weekend as a winter camp! The scouts set up the camp with pine bough teepees, snow quinzhees, regular tents, and one winterized tent with a wood burning stove. The teepees were constructed from pine boughs collected locally from branches that were downed during the Ice Storm of January. The construction method was based on Ojibway pine bough teepees. More than a dozen scouts slept out overnight in the structures, and then proudly showed off their winter camping skills to all of the visitors during the open house. Some of the activities during the day included a camp fire and a "stove race" to see which kind of stove boiled water the fastest. There was also rope walkway put up by the Venturers of Riverview District.     Perry Gaumond, Geoffrey Simpson, Michael Thompson, and Michael Wilcox. |
