This week’s visit back in time to Cochrane history takes us to the 1980s – arguably the heyday of the scouting movement in town. It celebrates its one-hundredth anniversary in 2021
During Friday’s “Archives Live” on Facebook, Ardis Proulx-Chedore of the Cochrane Public Library spoke about the new scout camp in 1988. It was reported in the Northland Post.
“The new Boy Scout camp at Silver Queen Lake was officially dedicated Sunday afternoon,” she reads. “More than 80 people were in attended. And it’s called Camp Marwick. Don Marwick, who donated the land to the Boy Scouts, was the official ribbon cutter.”
You’ll notice that that was before the word “Boy” was removed from the official name of Scouts Canada.
Proulx-Chedore also found a Northland Post photo about the new scout hall in 1985.
“Boy Scout Hall is fulfilling essential community role. So it’s another article and it’s got Jim there. Jim was very big – if anybody knows Jim Smith or knew Jim Smith, he’s passed away now, but he was very big into Scouts.”
Proulx-Chedore is live from the archives department on the library’s Facebook page, every Friday afternoon at 2:30.