Alston Scout Park – Magrath, Alberta
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N 49° 25.314 W 112° 52.098
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Alston Scout Park is at the corner of 1st Street West/Hwy. 69 and 2nd Avenue North.
Waymark Code: WMXPTJ
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 02/10/2018
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Alston Scout Park is a lovely park with flowering trees and 84 evergreen trees, for how many years Louisa Alston lived, benches, and nice walking paths. It is surrounded by an natural stone wall, at the corner is a memorial cairn with several plaques also are the flags of America, Canada, Britain, Alberta and the Scout flag.
Alston Scout Park is dedicated to:
Transcribed from plaque
Louisa Grant Alston
1914 – helped create Magrath’s FIRST Scout Troop.
1914 – 1924 – Magrath’s FIRST female Scoutmaster.
1914 – 1924 – Alberta’s FIRST female Scoutmaster.
1914 – 1924 – Canada’s FIRST female Scoutmaster.
June 17, 1917 – appointed Canada’s First Female Scout Commissioner
by the Duke of Devonshire, the Governor General of Canada.
June 28, 1939 – awardee Scouts Canada,
”Gold Medal Of Merit”, by Lt. Gov. W.S. Backman
on behalf of Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir.
