GM Updates

I do not have much news yet. Everyone must be too busy having fun. They had some bad weather to start with, but their tents stayed dry inside. I do know that Guider Alicia went to the CN tower and Casa Loma for her out-trip. Guider Leah went to Niagra Falls with 3 of our girls, one other girl went to the water slides.

If you are on Facebook, check out the Guiding Mosaic 2010 group page to see lots of conversations with parents and Guiders. There are also a lot of pictures there, some are put up by the GM group responsible for communication and some by participants.


Check these out:

CTV news video. (if it doesn't load right away click in the menu to the side for a link saying "Girl Guides celebrating 100 years of service".

Guelph newspaper article.



The camp puts out a daily newsletter for the campers. I found the online edition. Check it out to see what the camp is up to. Several parents on the facebook site are printing these out for their girls to keep and scrapbook or at least keep as a "good copy".

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If you are writing a letter or post card it will be delivered to the neighborhood marquee when it arrives.

Care of Girl Guides of Canada - Guiding Mosaic 2010**
7743 Conservation Rd.
Rural Road 4
Guelph, ONT

N1H 6J1

attn to the Orange 1940's and patrol #

Girl Guide Stamp

Canada Post has released a special stamp to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Girl Guides of Canada! The stamp was released on July 8, 2010 to coincide with the opening day of GM 2010.

An extra bonus for stamp collectors is that the collectible "first day cover" was actually canceled in Guelph. We plan to get one and frame it. Very cool! The stamps are available at the normal postal outlets so just ask for the Girl Guides of Canada stamps and use them on all your snail mail to celebrate our 100th anniversary.

Guelph - Here We Come!

Five girls and two leaders from our unit met up at the airport very early this morning to head off to GM 2010. The Manitoba contingent all traveled together in a chartered flight. It was so nice to see all the girls dressed in their Guiding uniforms and their GM camp windbreakers for the flight. The excitement was palpable even from a few sleepy faces at 5:30 am.

Good luck girls and have a wonderful time!

The Garden Party

On Saturday, July 3rd, Queen Elizabeth II was in Winnipeg for 6 hours. While she was here there was a Garden Party in her honor. We helped pass out cookies - three thousand of them! There was lots of praise from the event organizers about how how quickly the girls handed out the cookies and paper flags and how well they presented themselves, and how well they represented Guiding. When we were done that we were taken to a spot to stand for the for the royal walk-about. We all got to see the Queen and Prince Philip and she even said hello to one of our Pathfinders. The girls were fantastic in spite of the horrible heat and humidity that day. It was very exciting for all involved.

Photograph copyright of Alicia Cooper date July 3, 2010.

We made the news!

Three of the girls from our unit will have the wonderful opportunity to serve cookies to Queen Elizabeth II at a Garden Party! As preparation for the Royal Visit local news channels have interviewed the girls about how they feel about the Queen coming.

View CTV News story on this page and play the video

Global interview starts at 7 minute 21 seconds

The Royal Tour

Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh are visiting Winnipeg on Saturday July 3, 2010 and we have a reason to be very excited.

For more information about their visit and even protocol please look at this very interesting government website.

The Royal Tour

Here is a video of a newsreel from 1938 that shows Girl Guides at Windsor and the young Princess Elizabeth dressed in her Guide Uniform.



This clip was found at British Pathe