A Timeline of Significant Brigade Milestones

1883 – First Brigade Company organized in Glasgow, Scotland
1900 – Boys’ Brigade organized in Fox Valley, WI area.
1901 – Industrialist S.F. Shattuck takes over the Brigade leadership
1908 – First camp is formed on “Juniper” Island in Waupaca
1914 – Onaway Island is named
1938 – Chore staff is formed at Camp Onaway
1951 – First staff member, Jack Casper, is hired
1956 – Brigade building opens
1959 – Tents become cabins at Onaway
1964 – S.F. Shattuck award is created
1970 – Brigade expands with 32,000 square foot addition
1973 – Brigade operates its first girls’ camp
1979 – The Girls’ Brigade is formed
1993 – The Boys’ & Girls’ Brigade unites
2000 – 100 year Centennial Anniversary
2003 – $2.5 million building project completed at Camp Onaway.