Canada’s capital Ottawa has a bunch of nice museums, but the one I least expected to see was the National Scout Museum. I was a Cub Scout as a child so I knew about the uniform, badges, and activities, what I didn’t know was that there were Canadian scouts in Europe during the Allied occupation of Germany from the 1950s to the 1990s.
The museum is usually only open two weekdays a week for three hours at a time, but Doors Open Ottawa let visitors inside on the weekend. The earliest uniform in the collection was from 1906 and even has an exhibit on sea scouts. Every single badge and scout scarf from the country was on display to show how the insignias changed over time and across geographies.
The current Scout Canada headquarters is right on the edge of Carling Road, which used to be much narrower and abuts a strip mall. It will soon move to another site along the Rideau River.
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