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APRIL THEME
CANADA, OUR NEIGHBOR
Webelos Activity Badge—Scientist
Except for boys living along the Cana-
dian border, our Cub Scouts probably
know less about our neighbor to the
north than they do about the Soviet
Union or China. This may be because our
two countries enjoy such close, friendly
relations that Canada is rarely in the
news in the United States.
This month we will introduce our Cub
Scouts to Canada and its Cub Scouts.
Dens will have some activities typical of
Canadian Cub Scout programs. The
pack's highlight will be a Jungle Trail, a
series of fitness tests sometimes used by
Canadian packs.
This theme is designed to achieve Cub
Scouting's purposes of:
• Developing habits and attitudes of
good citizenship.
• Encouraging good sportsmanship and
pride in growing strong in mind and
body.
• Strengthening the ability to get along
with other boys and respect other people.
• Providing fun and exciting new things
to do.
PLANNING THE PACK MEETING. Cub
Scouting in Canada is in most respects
similar to our program. But for its sym-
bols, it follows the original plan of Robert
S.S. Baden-POwell, Scouting's founder,
and uses Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle
Book to a greater extent than we do.
So the feature event at the pack meet-
ing will be a Jungle Trail based on
Mowgli's adventures. (Mowgli was the
book's boy hero.) It is a series of physical
tests which has been used by Canadian
packs.
The Jungle Trail can be laid out
indoors, but outdoors would be better. If
your weather in late April is suitable,
plan to have an outdoor activity in a
playground or park.
Appoint the following committees:
Site—To obtain a suitable site, if you will
meet outdoors.
Jungle Trail—To plan events for the trail
and obtain equipment as needed. See the
ideas on page CUB 4 APR 91. Adapt
them to your needs; you might want to
add others based on Wolf Achievement 1
(Feats of Skill), Bear Achievement 16
(Building Muscles), or the Cub Scout
Sports: Physical Fitness booklet.
DEN PROJECTS
Den activities will include learning
something about Canada and Cub Scout-
ing there and preparing for the Jungle
Trail tests. Because Cub Scouting in Can-
ada uses as its symbols characters in The
Jungle Book, you will want to acquaint
your boys with the stories from that book
in our Wol/ and Big Bear Cub Scout
Books. Some den games this month are
based on those characters.
Any encyclopedia will have enough
information about Canada for your pur-
poses. To help the boys visualize where
Canada is, make a map of Canada and the
U.S.A. as shown on page CUB 3 APR 91
and post it in your meeting room. Mark
your own community's location.
Use the Quiz About Canada below at
your first den meeting and again at the
last meeting this month. Presumably the
boys will do better the second time.
Canada's land mass is slightly bigger
than the U.S.A., but it has only one-tenth
of our population. Canada's national
sport is hockey, and you can recognize
that by having a game of Broom Hockey
(page CUB 3 APR 91). Canadian boys also
play baseball, lacrosse, and football, as
well as many other familiar games.
More than one-quarter of Canada's
people are of French origin and speak
French as their first language. (Both Eng-
lish and French are official languages.)
The country has two Scout associations
—the Boy Scouts of Canada, primarily
for English-speaking boys, and Associa-
tion des Scouts du Canada, for French-
speakers. __ __
WHITE:
CANADA'S FLAG. The maple leaf is the
national emblem. Canada adopted
this flag in 1964. The den may make a
copy on construction paper.
QUIZ ABOUT CANADA
1. Is Canada's land area bigger or
smaller than the United States? (Ans.:
Bigger.)
2. Is Canada north, south, east, or west
of the 48 United States? (Ans.: North.)
3. Does Canada have more people than
the United States or less? (Ans. Less.
Canada's population is about one-tenth
that of the U.S.A.)
4. What two languages are commonly
spoken in Canada? (Ans. English and
French.)
5. Name three large cities in Canada.
(Ans.: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver,
Winnipeg, Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary,
Quebec.)
6. Canada's border with the U.S.A. is
about how long? 1,000 miles? 2,000
miles? 4,000? miles? 10,000 miles?
(Ans.: 4,000 miles.)
7. True or false: Most of Canada's peo-
ple live near the U.S. border. (Ans.: True.
About nine-tenths of Canada's popula-
tion is within 200 miles of the U.S.A.
This is because much of the north is for-
est wilderness and frozen wasteland.)
8. Does Canada have Cub Scouts?
(Ans.: Yes. And so do more than 100
other countries.)
CUB 1 APR 91
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