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This year (2010) Girl Guides are celebrating the Centenary of Guiding! (100 years)
In the Year 1492 Columbus discovered the Bahamas Islands!
A Frenchman named Gustave Renouard in 1841 after getting shipwrecked here in the Bahamas.
1910 was the year the first Girl Guide units were established in Ontario. The Canadian Girl Guides Organization was created in 1912 and in 1917 an Act of Parliament was passed approving the Canadian Girl Guides Associations constitution.
Although groups of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides existed before 1910, the first formally founded group, Girl Guides of the United Kingdom, was established in 1910.
According to the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) web site, Girl Guiding was introduced in France in 1921.
Girl Guides will be 100 years old in 2010. It is their 100 year anniversary this year.
When first starting Girl Guides/Girl Scouts in America in 1912, Juliette Gordon Low called the first troops American Girl Guides. A year later, the name was changed to Girl Scouts and, in 1915, the organization was incorporated as Girl Scouts, Inc.
Lord Robert Baden-Powell and his sister, Agnes Baden-Powell, founded Girl Guides in the United Kingdom in 1910.
Girl Guides of Canada sell the chocolatey mint cookies every fall (October to December) and the classic chocolate and vanilla sandwich cookies every spring (from approximately March to June). See the Related Links for a Cookie Finder Map. Girl Scouts of the USA: Each Girl Scout council sets the dates of their cookie sale, with the majority of the sales in late winter/early spring. See the Related Links for the Girl Scout Cookie Finder. Girl Guiding New Zealand sells Girl Guide Biscuits in March of each year. Girl Guides Australia take orders year round, but the cookies are delivered in April and May of each year.
Yes, Girl Guides in New Zealand sell biscuits (cookies). They sell three kinds: Original, Chocolate, and Mini. Girl Guides sell the biscuits in March and they can be bought online and in stores year round - as long as supplies last!