Editing Scouting in Hawaii (section)

==Early history prior to statehood (1908-1960)==
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The first troop in the islands, appropriately numbered Troop 1, was founded by a [[The Scout Association|British Scouter]] just recently relocated, and chartered to [[Kawaiahao Church|Kawaiaha{{okina}}o Church]]. One Saturday, former [[Queen Liliuokalani|Queen Lili{{okina}}uokalani]] was driven past [[Kapiolani Park|Kapi{{okina}}olani Park]] in [[Honolulu]], and noticed this troop going through [[Scout method|Scouting drills]]. She stopped and enquired what manner of military play this was, and the Scouts eagerly explained the concept of Scouting to her. On a following Saturday a month later, the Queen reappeared, and presented to the troop a [[Flag of Hawaii|Hawaiian flag]]. Emblazoned upon the red-white-and-blue stripes were the [[Seal of Hawaii|Hawaiian royal crest]] and the lettering in gold ''The Queen's Own Troop'', which she had labored at herself.  As the [[Scoutmaster]] was an Englishman, in their tradition of naming rather than numbering troops, the appellation stuck.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} The unit claiming longest continuous charter is Troop 1.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Troop 1 |url=http://hawaiiboyscouttroop1.wordpress.com/history/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718100543/http://hawaiiboyscouttroop1.wordpress.com/history/ |archive-date=2011-07-18}}</ref>

Troop 5 up until the early 1980s held the distinction of the longest continuously chartered unit in Hawaii.  It was Troop 5 that was known as "The Queen's Own Troop" that received the flag which was made by her own hands.  The flag was held by the Liliuokalani Trust until it was given to the Aloha Council BSA by a previous Assistant Scoutmaster, David Jeong of Troop 5. The flag was given as part of the Centennial Celebration of Scouting in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hoover |first=Will |date=2010-02-21 |title=Scouts kick off centennial at palace |url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2010/Feb/21/ln/hawaii2210360.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190226010230/http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2010/Feb/21/ln/hawaii2210360.html |archive-date=2019-02-26 |website=Honolulu Advertiser}}</ref>  One of Troop 5's Scoutmasters, "Kimo" James Austin Wilder was also a founder of the Sea Scout program.

[[David McHattie Forbes]] was the founder of Scouting in [[Waimea, Hawaii County, Hawaii|Waimea]] in the early 1900s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lougher |first=Thomas H. |title=Catherine Lougher}}</ref>

In 1946, Scouts helped re-introduce the endangered [[Hawaiian goose|nene]] into the [[Haleakala National Park]] by carrying young birds into the Haleakala Crater in their backpacks.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Grant |first1=Kim |title=Hawaii |last2=Glenda Bendure |last3=Michael Clark |last4=Ned Friary |last5=Conner Gorry |last6=Luci Yanamoto |date=April 2005 |publisher=[[Lonely Planet]] |isbn=9781740598712}}</ref>

The [[Honolulu Council]] (#104) was founded in 1914, and became the [[Honolulu County Council]] in 1924. In 1957, the council became the [[Aloha Council]].{{listref|a}}