Our Favourite Links

SCOUTING SITES-Local

http://nipissingscouting.blogspot.com/ Ken Sitter's (of 3rd Widdifield Scouts) Scout Blog Page.  A must for the local scout news and happenings

http://www.geocities.com/thirdwiddifield/ Third Widdifield Scout's Web Page

http://www.geocities.com/second_trout_mills_group/  Second Trout Mill Scout's Web Page

http://www.1stcallander.ca/ First Callander Scout's Web Page

http://www.scoutsnorth.com/ Northern Ontario Council's web page

SCOUTING SITES-National

http://www.scouts.ca/ Scout's Canada's Site

http://www.scoutalog.com/ The Electronic Canadian Scouting Catalogue.  A virtual collection of images of old badges, uniforms books and more dating from 1908 to present.

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/1066/ Quebec's Mohawk Scout Pack's Site This is a really great site, that you have to check out.  Make sure that you have your Computer's audio turned on.

http://www.scouts.ca/cj07/  CJ'07 is being held at Camp Tamaracouta, July 25 to August 1, 2007, in the heart of the lower Laurentians, approximately 1 hour North of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

SCOUTING SITES-International

http://www.scout.org/front/index.shtml The World Scouting Site

http://inter.scoutnet.org/ The InterNETional Scouting Site; A good place to start your search on the world-wide net

SCOUTING SITES-Resources

http://www.pinetreeweb.com/ Lots of BP information on this site

http://www.gaelwolf.com/gaelwolf/ The Gaelic Wolf Site, The serious side of Scouting

http://www.netwoods.com/index.html Steve Tobin's Virtual Campsite, A great wealth of information and resources

http://www.scoutorama.com/ A good USA site with lots of resource information

http://www.macscouter.com/ Another good USA site with lots of resource information

http://www.42brghtn.mistral.co.uk/knots/42ktmenu.html The animated knots site.  This site makes it easy and you'll have no excuse now for tying "granny knots".

http://www.princeton.edu/~oa/winter/wintcamp.shtml A great winter camping site

http://www.theozarks.com/Outdoors.htm Bill's Outdoor Page with many tips on mapping, shelters and winter camping.

KUB KAR/TRUCK RODEO SITES

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/1066/53kubkar.html Mohawk Scout Pack's Site. This should be your first stop if you are building a kar or truck or even organizing a race

http://members.aol.com/StanDCmr/pwportal.html This is Stan Pope's Pinewood Derby Site (what the USA Scouts call their Kub Kar Race.  He has many good tips on building and staging a race.

http://www.derbytalk.com/ This is an Kub Kar/Pinewood Derby forum site where you can ask a question in regards to your kar or the race.  There is lots of information if you have time to sort though it.

http://members.aol.com/randywoo/pine/ One of the best sites on the net with lots of race winning details.

http://www.rahul.net/mcgrew/derby/ One of the oldest Pinewood derby sites on the net

http://pack146.nova.org/pinewood/pinewood.html More Derby tips.  Check out their experiments page as the owner makes some good points concerning the design of the Kar

GEOCACHING SITES

http://www.geocaching.com/   The Geocaching Home page. If you don't know what geocaching is then this should be your first stop.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=9be29333-5701-44e8-9366-f59581780954 Our first Geocache that we hid in the Laurier Woods in 2002. 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=d48b82f9-0f1e-4f3b-9341-ac8011d2eb4a  Our second Geocache (with the help of Scouter Karen) that we hid at winter camp in 2003. 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=ec9144cd-59d7-4cb2-9423-893dc6dcfa6f Our latest Geocache that we placed in order to bring attention to the Lavase Portage

http://www.garmin.com/manuals/GPSGuideforBeginners_Manual.pdf  a great source of info for beginners and long time users

http://gpsinformation.net/  another great source of info for beginners and long time users

http://earth.google.com/  Google Earth Info and Download page. This is the great new program.  You do need a fairly powerful computer and fast internet connection for it to work nicely. 

http://www.geocaching.com/kml/buildnetworkkml.aspx Link to download the Google Earth Geocache add on that shows the cache locations on the Google Earth program. 

http://www.losgear.com/mod.php?mod=cart&op=display_categories&category_id=2&parents_only=true  Jerry Lefebvre’s (Lefebvre Sports here in North Bay) GPS Web page 

http://www.radioworld.ca/index.php  Radioworld in Toronto is one of the largest GPS retailers in Canada

http://www.gpscity.ca/ GPS City in Calgary a little out of the way, but they have lots to say.

NORTH BAY SITES

http://www.northbayheartbeat.com/  Barry's North Bay Site - Check out the NORTH BAY HISTORY section-Top Notch!!!!

http://www.pastforward.ca/perspectives/ Doug Mackay's "Past Forward" columns from the local newspaper that digs up little known facts on our local history of North Bay and the surrounding area.

http://www.nugget.ca/ North Bay's  local newspaper

http://baytoday.ca/ North Bay's electronic newspaper

http://www.nbcanoe.com/  North Bay Canoe Company - The place to go if you want anything to do with  canoes and kayaks and much more.

http://troutlake.ca/  A well put together site that tells all about Trout Lake (The lake that is situated on the eastern edge of North Bay)

http://www.venturenorth.com/nipissing/index.htm A site that gives you a fair amount of information about Lake Nipissing (The lake that is situated on the western edge of North Bay)

http://www.nbmca.on.ca/Canoe%20Race.htm The site for the annual North Bay to Mattawa Canoe race that is held every August on the Civic Holiday