Lord and Lady Baden-Powell Meet Scouts and Guides in Beacon Hill Park April 1935 @BCHistory
Lord and Lady Baden-Powell Meet Scouts and Guides in Beacon Hill Park April 1935  @BCHistory
Uploaded July 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Robert Baden-Powell and his wife Olave visited Victoria on April 12th 1935. Robert reviewed the Cubs and Scouts while Olave and her two daughters reviewed the Guides.

Lord Baden-Powell planted a tree in the mayor's grove on this visit.

Link to a contemporary news article about the visit
news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19350413&id=3wUuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8JgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3225,1642719&hl=en

The raw footage comes from this link
youtube.com/watch?v=Z72Z0Ts_kMs
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Lord and Lady Baden-Powell Meet Scouts and Guides in Beacon Hill Park April 1935

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