World Centres
The Guiding Movement
Canadian Currency
Currency
Forms of Payment
100
The founder of Girls Guides, Lord Robert Baden-Powell, and the World Chief Guide, Lady Olave Baden-Powell were born in the country where the Pax Lodge World Centre is located. This currency is used here.
Answer: What is the British pound, also called the pound sterling?
100
Our Guiding sisters in the United States have a similar organization to Girl Guides of Canada called Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA). Like us, Girl Scouts also sell cookies. This is the currency they use to sell their boxes.
Answer: What is the U.S. dollar?
100
These are the names of the five coins used in Canada.
Answer: What are the Nickel, Dime, Quarter, Loonie, and Toonie?
100
The colourful money with a hint of maple
Canadian Dollar/Currency
100
Coins or polymer bills/bank notes.
What is cash?
200
Our Chalet in Adelboden, Switzerland was the first World Centre of the World Association of Girls Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS). This centre is surrounded by beautiful mountains and is known for its hiking trails. If your unit went on an international trip to visit Our Chalet, you would need this currency to buy some of Switzerland’s famous chocolates.
Answer: What is the Swiss franc?
200
WAGGGS World Conferences happen every three years and are an important opportunity for setting policies and for developing new programs. The 35th World Conference was held in Hong Kong in July 2014. If you attended that conference, this is the currency you’d have needed to have on hand.
Answer: What is the Hong Kong dollar?
200
True or False? A famous Canadian woman is found on the $50.00 bill.
Answer: What is false? She can be found on the $10.00 bill!
200
These united bills share one thing in common: colour
American/United States Dollar/Currency
200
A plastic card with numbers, a microchip, and your name. Also has the bank’s name.
What is a debit card or a credit card?
300
Emma bought a sari at the local market close to the Sangam World Centre and wore it later that week to visit the Taj Mahal. She used this currency to pay to enter the Taj Mahal.
Answer: What is the Indian rupee?
300
Imagine that your mother and grandmother were both Pathfinders before you and love their memories of being in Guiding. Now, as a family, you are travelling to Switzerland to Our Chalet for a family stay. From Our Chalet, you will then go to Germany for a three-day hiking trip. This is the currency you’ll need in Germany.
Answer: What is the euro?
300
True or False? In Canada we have $5.00, $10.00, $20.00, $50.00, $100.00 bills.
Answer: What is true?
300
Looking awfully Canadian of you
Australian Dollar/Currency
300
A plastic card with the logo or name of the company.
What is a gift card?
400
Imagine that your unit decided to take a trip down south. While staying at one of WAGGGS’ World Centres, your unit ate tacos and fajitas regularly and practiced speaking Spanish while helping out at a local school. This is the name of the World Centre, the country it’s in, and the currency they use there.
Answer: What is Our Cabaña in Mexico? What is the Mexican peso?
400
You receive a handwritten letter from your Guiding pen pal in Oman! What type of currency did she use to pay for the postage?
Answer: What is the Omani rial?
400
Identify one coin no longer used in Canada.
Possible Answers: What is the penny or the fifty-cent coin?
400
Normally used in terms of weighing ones' self
British Pound/British Sterling
400
A piece of paper with all your bank information written on the bottom in numbers.
What is a cheque?
500
Kusafiri is the only World Centre that changes locations for every event or program. When Kusafiri set up in Rwanda, visitors would have had to use this currency
Answer: What is the Rwandan franc?
500
When you “Twin” with another Guiding organization in the world, you write letters and send videos to get to know each other. The Twinning 2020 partner for Alberta, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories is Guyana. If Guyanese Guiders were mailing SWAPS and needed to buy postage, this is the currency they’d use to pay for stamps
Answer: What is the Guyanese dollar?
500
Identify three Canadian bills that are no longer used in Canada.
Possible Answers: What is the $1.00, $2.00, $25.00, $500.00, and $1,000.00 bill?
500
Ghandi was here
Indian Rupee
500
An email sent from your bank to another person.
What is an interac e-transfer