Every four years, our Scout District conducts an exchange program with a Scout
District in Canada. Last year, Scouts from our area visited Canada.
This year the Canadian Scouts will be coming to Pennsylvania. Our guests will
arrive on Thursday evening May 16 and attend school with their host on
Friday. Friday evening we'll all go camping together returning on
Sunday to spend the rest of the day with their host and stay overnight.
Monday morning, our guests return
home.
What will we do at the campout? It is similar to a camporee with several stations:
cooking
Paint Ball (target shooting only)
archery
climbing
swimming
games
crafts
You will get to share in fellowship
with Canadian scouts and trade patches. This is a great opportunity to do something with international Scouts that few US Scouts get to experience.
Plus, help us build the Troop 98 Ferris Wheel!
2007 Troop 98 Ferris Wheel
Depart from: St. John's at 5:30 PM on Friday May 17th Return to: St. John's at Noon on Sunday May 19th Camping at:BriarwoodDay Camp - Furlong, PA MAP Cost: $45.00 / PERSON (Event fee) - Please bring a check to a troop meeting made out to "BSA Troop 98" and put it in the Treasurer's box. This fee is assessed by the Council. We recognize this is expensive for a weekend campout so we will cover the cost of meals from the Troop treasury. Please let a Scoutmaster know if you want to go but this cost represents a hardship.
History of the Scope/Olympia: The event began in 1967 with an invitation by
Baden Powell District to Brampton Area Scouting to visit with Baden
Powell District Scouting in the US. It was followed up with an invitation for the Americans to come to
Canada and visit there. After each two years rotation we would skip
three years and begin again with the program. Having
reached our 45th anniversary the program grew, by invitation, to other
units in the States and to other towns in Ontario in the Greater Toronto
Area.The program includes home hospitality, camping, touring of another country and amazing, awesome fellowship.