History of Scouting in the Philippines

Scouting activities in the Philippines have been promoted by various organizations: the YMCA, the Boy Scouts of America, the Camp Fire Girls, the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, the Girl Scouts of the Philippines, and the Boy Scouts of China.
Youth Scouting was founded in the Philippines in 1910 in Manila by Elwood Stanley Brown of the YMCA. The Boy Scouts of Calivo was founded on April 22, 1922, by a certain Mr. Ong. The Boy Scouts of America Philippine Islands Council No. 545 was founded in 1923 in Manila by the Rotary Club of Manila. The Boy Scouts of the Philippines was legally established in 1936 in Manila through the work of three men: Josephus Emile Hamilton Stevenot , Tomás Confesór y Valenzuela , and Manuél Luís Quezon y Molina , and the organization started activities in 1938.
The 1973 celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Philippine Scouting and the Golden Jubilee Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines were dated from the establishment of the BSA Philippine Islands Council No. 545 in 1923, but the 2014 "Philippine Scouting Centennial Jamboree" commemorated the founding of the Lorillard Spencer Troop in 1914.