The Chief Scout's Award is the highest award which can be achieved at the Scout level in Scouts Canada. It was inaugurated in 1973 by then Governor General Roland Michener. The Governor General, being the Queen's representative in Canada, is also the Chief Scout of Canada. The award replaced the Queen's/Kings's Scout award. An award is something given to a person or group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field. ... Scouts Canada is a Scout association and member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, in affiliation with the French-language Association des Scouts du Canada. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... The Right Honourable Daniel Roland Michener, PC , CC , CMM , CD , LL.D (April 19, 1900 - August 6, 1991) was Governor General of Canada from 1967 to 1974. ... A Governor-General (in Canada, Governor General) is most generally a governor of high rank, or a principal governor ranking above ordinary governors [1]. The most common contemporary usage of the term is to refer to the royally-appointed territorial governor of a region, or royal representative in a country...

In order to earn the award a Scout must earn the Voyageur and Pathfinder Activity Awards which require the Scout to develop citizenship, leadership, personal development and outdoor skills, as well as earn seven Challenge badges, an additional requirement for the Chief Scout's award is that among those there must be at least one in each of the seven categories (athletics, outdoors, home and family, personal development, science and technology, culture and society, and environment); they must in addition hold current qualifications in Standard First Aid, hold the World Conservation Badge, investigate and present findings on Scout Canada's involvement in World Scouting, design a challenging programme which will require the Scout to excel in each of the four activity areas (Citizenship, Leadership, Personal Development, and Outdoor Skills), including at least 30 hours of additional service to others (above those required in the Citizenship Activity area of the Voyageur and Pathfinder awards). Scouts Canadas Scout program offers two main types of badges, Challenge Badges and Activity badges. ... Scouts Canadas Scout program offers two main types of badges, Challenge Badges and Activity badges. ... Citizenship is membership in a political community (originally a city but now usually a state) and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen. ... The word leadership can refer to: the process of leading the concept of leading those entities that perform one or more acts of leading. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Scouts Canadas Scout program offers two main types of badges, Challenge Badges and Activity badges. ... First aid is a series of simple, life-saving medical techniques that a non-doctor or layman can be trained to perform. ...

In working towards the Chief Scout's Award, the Scout will have performed over 30 hours of service in the community, much of it self-directed. They have met with a local service agency and together have discussed and made plans for future improvements in the community. Additional work on the World Conservation Badge exposes a Chief Scout's Award candidate to the many environmental issues of today, and they have taken an active role in promoting those issues with the public. Chief Scout candidates amass more than 100 kilometers in hiking camps and they spend time as trainers helping their fellow Scouts work on their own badge levels. This article or section needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... Public is of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to private; as, the public treasury, a road or lake. ...

External links

• Chief Scout's Award Information Site