Girl Guides & Scouts Programs

The Aurora Historical Society (AHS) The Aurora Historical Society (AHS) hosts Boy Scouts and Girl Guides groups for single-day programs to help fulfill their badge requirements. Below is the overview of programs for the participants in the 2023 season. The AHS is dedicated to providing safe, accessible, engaging and innovative programming. Please reach out to us if you require any modifications to the available programs.

To receive the full Boy Scouts & Girl Guides programming package, including booking details, please email programming@aurorahs.com or call us at 905-727-8991 to make an inquiry.

Tour Hillary House National Historic Site with AHS Staff to learn about a heritage building in your very own community. Play games that were common in the Victorian Era to learn about recreational hobbies in the past and how they have changed.

In teams, try your hand at a Scavenger Hunt on Hillary House’s property to discover history all around you! Take home a Scavenger Hunt for the Town of Aurora to continue exploring your community with family and friends.

Learn about a local family’s life during the Victorian Era. Understand how ways of life have evolved through time by getting hands-on with artifacts from the Aurora Historical Society’s education collection.

Explore a heritage building in your very own community. As a team, take turns reaching into an artifact sensory box to engage each of your senses, and connect to the history around you.

Tour Hillary House National Historic Site to learn about a Victorian family’s domestic life in a local heritage building. Get to know Canadian stories told by local women, by singing along and writing your own story.

Understand how technology, transportation, and ways of life have evolved through time by learning more about our town. As a team, create your own town, and what you think is important for your community.

Engage with artifacts from the Aurora Historical Society’s education collection to learn how objects can be important for people. Make your own journal that holds meaningful goals and memories for you. Take the journal home to keep working on it as you grow!