Local Voices: 100 Years of Girl Guiding in West Vancouver (1921-2021)
Channel: West Vancouver Memorial Library
Date: 2021-07-21

Recorded July 15, 2021

Several troops of Girl Guides were established on the North Shore in 1921. It was a time when the City of Vancouver was a ferry ride away and Marine Drive had not yet reached Whytecliff Park. Physical isolation did not prevent the modern world from reaching West Vancouver. Women like Phyl Munday, Gwladys Davis, Lucy Smith, and Ruth Thompson championed the Guiding movement. Teachers, politicians, and business owners, these trailblazing local women volunteered their time to teach girls self-reliance and independence.

To mark 100 years of Guiding in West Vancouver, long time resident and Guider Daphne Hales will speak on the British origins of the Guiding movement, and how Guiding arrived and flourished in Canada. Historic photos and archival movie clips will accompany stories about visiting dignitaries, early camping adventures to Bowen Island and Wilson Creek (later named Camp Olave), and the creation of the Phyl Munday Nature House in Lighthouse Park.

Local Voices celebrates our community, as it was and as it is, in the words of the people who live here. Learn about who we are, why we chose to make our home in West Vancouver, and what we do here. Presented in partnership with the West Vancouver Historical Society. Anyone with memories or stories of Guiding in West Vancouver is encouraged to contact the WVHS at 778.279.2235 or wvhs@shaw.ca.

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