If you came to this page from my personal home page, you may have noted in my biographical sketch that I had been involved with Scouting in Malta, and in Canada. I was a Scouter for over thirty five years, and held various positions from Second Patrol Leader to District Rover Leader, and most of the ranks in between.
I have taken several training courses from a Patrol Leader's Training Course to Wood Badge - I hold the Gilwell Scarf and Wood Badge Beads in five sections - Pack [Cubs], Troop [Scouts], Company [Venturers], Crew [Rovers], and Trainers [Service Team]. Unfortunately I never had the privilege of working with the youngest section of the movement - Beavers.


I believe that I am one of a very few Volunteer Scouters who hold five sets of beads and parchments. The only one I do not have is the Beaver section one. Of course by the time Beavers had started in Canada, I was starting to retire. I actually attended seven courses. The first one in Malta I was considered too young, just 17, and was asked to take it again. Then I emigrated to Canada and took it again at Ernwigle in 1964. The first Pack course I took was disastrous. Many of those attending did not make it!!! [1958]

During these years, I kept a special notebook with important notes. This section contains a selection from that notebook that I wish to share with Scouters all over the world. They may be "old hat" to some of you, but I trust that some of you may enjoy perusing them, and, hopefully making use of them with your "Scouts" of the appropriate section.
I have jotted down ideas and songs, crafts and prayers, this and that, from various Scout gatherings that I have participated in over the years. If by chance, you stumble across any item that is attributable to any particular author, please let me know so that I may give the proper credit. Thank you.

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Recently the Scout Association of Malta, after tracking me down with all my changes of address, awarded me a medal
I was on Staff at the First Ontario Jamboree in Milton, Ontario, in the summer of 1969, and on National Staff at the Canadian Jamboree held in Prince Edward Island, in 1971. When the contingent from Chatham participated in the Jamboree in 1997, I designed their crest for them .