1st Moncton St. George's Scouts
51 Church St E1C 4Z3 Moncton, NB, Canada

Hi 1st Moncton Scouts, Just a reminder that This sunday from 10am to 1pm is our regular meeting out at Camp Longshadow. We are still permitted to have outdoor meetings under the current Orange alert level. This is also the last week where we will be required to wear hunter orange. Deer Season ends on Sunday.... Remember to Dress appropriately for the weather. It will be around -5 in the morning with the wind chill. Our goal will be to get the kitchen the scouts have been working on finished up and the Sink installed See you all there!

Hi everyone. Just a reminder that our regular meeting is tomorrow at Camp Longshadow from 10am to 1pm. Dress warm. It will be about -3 in the morning. See you all there.

Earlier in the fall season, St. George's cubs paid a visit to Camp Longshadow and left out some food at different locations around the property designed to attract various species of animals. The purpose of this exercise was to help the cubs gain an opportunity to see what animals inhabit the property that Camp Longshadow is located on. While the 3 sites chosen had all the treats that the Cubs left out for them eaten up, unfortunately the camera's that were used to take pict...ures of the locations, were placed too high to catch anything in their field of view So Two weeks ago on Nov 1st, we tried again to capture who had eaten all the cub's food. Scouts Sally Peacock and Luca Goguen, placed out some apples at one of the sites the cubs had chosen and set up the Camera at a much lower level than before. Later that evening, as you can see from the pictures, a few guests stopped by Camp Longshadow to take advantage of the meal the Scouts left for them. What's interesting to note is that the Doe and her Fawn (the two pictured together without horns) were recognized by the Property owner(retired scouter Ron Goodwin) as the deer which have been frequently eating from the 2 apple trees in his yard about 6km away. Great work Scouts!

At this week's meeting at Camp Longshadow, Scouter-in-training Jeffrey quizzed the scouts on the identity of a local mammal he came across on his way to the camp. Senior Scout Marshall Dunn gave 1st year Scout Tyler Schonewille some pointers on how to use a saw more efficiently and we did some Dutch oven cooking, and baked a treat and sang happy birthday to Scout Luca Goguen who celebrated his 12th birthday on Sunday.

Hi Everyone just a reminder that tomorrow's meeting starts at 10am not 9am. With the colder weather now being the normal, were starting a little later in the day now to take advantage of warmer temperatures. Tomorrow's meeting will run from 10am to 1pm, Scouts can bring their lunch if they'd like. We were planning on an all day meeting tomorrow but we will have to reschedule it for another time. See you all tomorrow morning and have a safe and happy halloween

At Today's meeting at Camp Longshadow, the scouts learned how to produce Birch oil from birch bark Birch oil was used in more traditional times as an antiseptic and fire starter. It can also be boiled down to make Birch pitch, which was used as a waterproofing agent and adhesive. A hole was dug under our fire pit (which conveniently has a hole in its bottom) Into which a pint sized metal can was placed. The fire pit was then placed on top. Birch bark was collected and rol...led tight and filled up in an unused 4L paint can with a hole punched into the bottom. The can was then sealed and placed into the fire pit over the hole in the bottom and a fire built around the can. After about an hour of burning, the birch bark Inside the can is turned into a ball of paper-mache type material and the oil drips down into the can buried under the fire pit. As you can see from the pictures there's not much oil produced from that whole can. It will take alot of bark to make even a small container full. But mow that we have the process down, we can continue to produce it as part of our regular fire making activities till we get enough to begin converting it from oil to pitch. Great Job 1st Moncton Scouts.