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Nicomekl
Area Scouting.
CloverValley,
Peace Arch, & Langley Scouting Districts have merged to form
an "Area" (2004Sep01 officially).
It's
an exciting time for us as we adjust to a new structure &
new friends. We
hope that our web site is providing our members & other visitors
with everything they could possibly want from an Area Scouting
web site. The
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"You're never
too old to
do goofy stuff"
- Ward Cleaver
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Founding
Years of our 5 Age Sections:
1907 Scouts
1916 Wolf Cubs
1917 Rovers
1967 Venturers (co-ed from day 1)
1974 Beavers |
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"Scouts Canada,
the country’s leading youth organization, offers five challenging
programs for boys, girls and youth age 5-26 in nearly 4,500
individual groups in most cities and towns across Canada. Over
100,000 young people enjoy Scouts Canada’s programs, which are
provided by 30,000 caring and dedicated volunteers. Scouts Canada’s
national office is located in Ottawa."
- Jennifer Austin, Director of Communications, Scouts
Canada, 2003 Nov 12.
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The
Nicomekl River
(many thanks to Greg Kear for providing this research)
The Nicomekl has played a rich part in the history of the communities
through which it flows. It was named after the Nicomekl Band of
the Katzie Nation. The Nicomekl, as a distinct people, vanished
in the time of the smallpox epidemic of the 1700s. That fact alone
provides an object lesson that, if the name is chosen, will always
be attached to the uniforms of the Scouts in our Area.
From Chuck Davis' "A Brief History of Greater Vancouver" (http://www.discovervancouver.com/GVB/history-of-vancouver.asp):
"A party of 40 men led by chief factor James McMillan reached
what is now the Langley area December 16, 1824. They approached
from the west, entering the Nicomekl River from its mouth on Boundary
Bay, paddling through what is now Surrey, then portaging to the
Salmon River. They entered the Fraser River about 50 kilometres
from its mouth, then carried on north into the interior."
The party was, as denizens of Fort Langley well know, commissioned
by the Hudson's Bay Company, so the "Nic" was instrumental in
the eventual choice of the first site of the Fort. http://www.fortlangley.ca/TheFort.html
The river also played an important role in the transportation
of goods and people to the Clover Valley and Langley farming communities.
Jack Brown's "Surrey's History" (http://members.shaw.ca/j.a.brown/WTranspo.html):
"The Nicomekl River was the only truly navigable stream. It
had been used for generations by the Coast Salish in their seasonal
movement to the Fraser fisheries near present Fort Langley. The
navigable waterway had been shown to James McMillan in 1824, and
his was the first European party to traverse it. The Nicomekl
was wider, deeper and had a greater flow than either the Serpentine
or the Little Campbell Rivers. Its only draw back was a big meander
about four miles upstream. However, in 1888 local farmers dug
a canal through the neck of the big bend to improve navigation.
The Nicomekl was navigable as far as Halls Prairie Road with a
small draught boat. Larger freight boats or tugs averaging fifty
tons, but up to one hundred tons, usually only ventured upstream
as far as the big bend in the Nicomekl to the float at the Carncross
farm. If these larger boats went further upstream they would turn
around on the Nicomekl near the big bend(where the river widens
in the vicinity of the present Johnston and Mud Bay roads) and
go backwards the rest of their run to the terminus at Halls Prairie
Road."
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