An Early Canadian Boys' Brigade Membership Badge

Bronze, unmarked, 35 mm x 35.5 mm, vertical pinback, spotting, near extremely fine.

Footnote: The Boys' Brigade is an interdenominational Christian youth organization, conceived by William Alexander Smith, to combine drill and fun activities with Christian values. Following its inception in Glasgow in 1883, the Boys' Brigade quickly spread across the United Kingdom and became a worldwide organization by the early 1890s. The Boys' Brigade was prominent in Canada up until the mid-1980s and owned a camp north of Toronto, at Gravenhurst, Ontario. The last of the "Toronto companies" were the 11th and 9th. In addition, there were several companies in Montreal, Quebec (6th, 8th Montreal and others), Winnipeg, Manitoba and Calgary, Alberta. The Boys' Brigade International Camp, Centenary of Camping, was held in August 1986, in Tighnabruaich, Argyll, Scotland.