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

The Canada Cord Award

Congratulations to the three recipients of the Canada Cord from
The 212th Pathfinder Unit.

The girls have worked so hard to earn this award. Congratulations to all of you. You really deserve it.

On Saturday, girls from our unit received their Canada Cord Pin, ribbon and certificate at the Provincial Youth Award Ceremony. It was a nice ceremony with a very nice luncheon following. The girls were ceremoniously piped in and speeches were made. Introductions were followed by each girl receiving their Canada Cord Certificate and a flower while pictures of them over the past three years in Guiding were projected at the back of the stage. The Awards Day also included moving speeches and a few performances by girls.

In three years time we hope to be back watching them receive the Chief Commissoner's Gold Award.

We are so proud of you!

The Garage Sale

The Garage Sale was a success! We can't believe the generosity of people in giving us items to sell this weekend. We want to give a special thanks to G's family that hosted us and made their garage available to us. We want to offer our congratulations to G. who worked so hard to pull it all together and in doing this completed her third level Leadership Award.
The sale was a successful fundraiser in support of the trip this summer to GM 2010 camp.

A Blast from the Past

This video is from Girl Guides of Canada, GM2010 site with images from past national camps.

Rainbow Camp

The camp was a weather themed camp and we experienced rain, wind, hail, and sunny weather all before the tents were set up on Friday.

Two girls finished their third year camps and did a fantastic job. We had four Guides join us and they were a great addition to our unit. They completed the experienced camper portion of the Guide program at this camp. We had one new Pathfinder who camped for her very first time and loved it.

The Pathfinders went exploring "New Paths" both as day hikes and night hikes. A major part of this camp was exploring different outdoor cooking methods, checking out tent performance and getting basic camping skills perfected. We participated in a variety of activities with the area camp form some crafts and wide games to a larger campfire and sing along. In the morning the girls recieved a huge number of pins, badges and awards. Congratulations to all of the girls!

E and J both completed the third year Camping Award at this camp. They both did an outstanding job and we are very proud of them.