Here's a link to a Canadian organization called Junior Forest Wardens...
>>>In 1929 a story was published in this section which was to have an effect upon its readers - and upon history - far beyond anything its author could have expected. The story was set at Smug Cove on Bowen Island, and concerned a group of boys, friends of the local ranger, who got together to form a club. It tells how they discovered a fire in the bush, reported it to the ranger, and helped him put out the fire.
The response to this story was incredible. Boys from all parts of the province wrote into the author enquiring about joining the club or forming one like it. Somewhat overwhelmed by this reaction, the local manager of the CFA office, Charles Wilkinson, and his associates, looked at each other and said "Why not?"
So the Warden Movement was born. Initially however, the boys were called the Junior Fire Rangers. For each 100 students in a given community, one boy was selected to be a ranger, a representative of the CFA, in consultation with the school principal. The boy selected was to act as a fire prevention officer, whose special duty was to inform other students concerning fire laws in particular, and forest conservation in general.... <<<
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