Gordon Stephen is a real Boy Scout. The 17-year-old Kanata Lakes youth has spent his formative years following the advice of Scouting founder Lt.-Gen. Robert Baden Powell: Be Prepared.

Every year Scouts Canada does basic canoe training before their spring camp. In the latest session at the Walter Baker Sports Centre on April 25, the kids learned survival techniques. Instructors would push the canoes over and the cubs would try and r...