February 8th - Boy Scout Day in America

Boy Scout Day celebrates the birthday of Scouting in America. On February 8, 1910, Chicago publisher William Dickson Boyce filed incorporation papers in the District of Columbia to create the Boy Scouts of America.

Here in Canada, we don't have the same Boy Scout Day, but the Scouting movement all over the world does celebrate Lord and Lady Baden-Powell's birthdate on February 22.

To help celebrate the Scouting movement this month, I've posted a few pictures of some special commemorative collectible Coca-Cola cans from some of the past Jamborees held in Canada. Anybody else have some pictures they'd like to share?

1985 Canadian Scout Jamboree in Guelph, Ontario

The aluminum they used back then sure was a lot heavier! Also interesting to note is that the cans were 280ml, whereas today's cans are 330ml. This one got emptied on site, but not these.....

1983 XV World Scout Jamboree in Kananaskis, Alberta

A full six-pack! I shouldn't say full - any Coke collector knows that even when unopened, the cans have a way of slowly leaking out.

A special thanks to my Mother-in-Law, first for giving these cans to me, and second, for bringing her son to the same Scout camp I was attending in my teen years!


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