Shirt
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| Object Name: | Shirt |
| Object Type: | Uniform |
| Category: | Main garment |
| Material: | Fibre |
| Accession Number: | 07.23.2A |
| Earliest Production Date: | 1954-01-01 |
| Latest Production Date: | 1961-12-31 |
| Description: | Green, long sleeved cotton shirt with centre front button opening, turned-down collar, two patch pockets, shoulder epaulettes, and buttoned cuffs. The shirt has a back yoke. The patch pockets and epaulettes button shut. Front right side: on the top of the breast pocket is a large embroidered square badge, 9.5cm wide, set on the diagonal, for the "10th World Jamboree/Phillipines/Mondial/1959". Just above the pocket, the lanyard is lightly stitched. Above the lanyard is the Boy Scouts-Canada badge with "Boy Scouts-Canada" in embroidered in yellow. Above that is the Red Ensign (old Canadian flag) and above the flag are two green "Boy Scouts" badges, one round and one is square. Left front side: On the pocket are three white vertical twill stripes (7 x 1.5cm). Stitched on the centre stripe is an oval green badge with "Boy Scouts" embroidered in yellow thread. Above the pocket flap are two small metal stars that have a felt circle between the star and the shirt. Right sleeve: There seventeen proficiency badges and one is the Nova Scotia emblem and above is the "1st Wolfville" arranged in rows down the sleeve. Left sleeve: There five proficiency badges and two Boy Scout badge arranged down the sleeve. On the left epaulette only is a silver pin in the shape of an arrowhead, and three white twill tape stripes sewn to a piece of black cloth that forms a tube and slides over the epaulette. On the neckband is white name label embroidered in red. Supplier's label on the inside of the back yoke. |
| Narrative: | The shirt was part of a Boy Scouts uniform worn by Dr. Alan (Pete) Connelly when he grew up at 23 Linden Avenue, Wolfville. He spent two years in Cubs and seven years in Scouts and then became a Queen Scout. In 1959 aged 16, as a troop leader he was chosen to participate in the World jamboree in which thousands of boy scouts from around the world met in the Philippines, the first jamboree to be held in Asia. The uniforms were purchased at Phinney's, Kentville. Phinney was also a scout leader. Accompanying the uniforms are the manuals which explain many aspects of the scouting movement including the uniform and each badge. Also provided is a photograph copy of Dr. Connelly in his complete uniform. |
| Length: | 75 cm |
| Width: | 142 cm |
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| Institution City: | Wolfville |
| Institution Province: | Nova Scotia |
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