8th
Worldjamboree 1955
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Canada
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11.139
Scouts
71 Countries
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Niagara
on the Lake
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August 18 - 28
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This was the first
Jamboree organised outside Europe. The theme
of this Jamboree was "New Horizons". The area was a beautiful sloping
parklandscape near Niagara on the Lake, at the border
with America.
The participants didn’t have to dig, the Canadians did this with draglines and
bulldozers. Every country had a national gate and cooking was done on charcoal.
For the first time the Jamboree was on television. Three Brasilian
scouts made it to the Jamboree after a journey for three months by Jeep, while
some scouts from New Zealand travelled for four months over 45.000 km over land and
water. An unexpected and uninvited guest was the hurricane Conny.
Just two subcamps had a badge, Prairi
and Allouette (a special subcamp
for French speaking scouts). The most remarkable was the enormous hospitality
by the Canadian people. They didn’t only raise money for scouts from poorer
countries, but they also welcomed them and loaded them with friendship and
understanding.
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