Tran Van Khac

Who was Tran Van Khac?

Trần Văn Khắc is widely recognised as the founder of the Vietnamese Scouting movement in Vietnam in 1930 in Hanoi. He was a teacher and an athlete. The Scout movement that he created was called Dong Tu Quan, and it had a focus on athletics as well as the standard Scouting activities. In 1932, Trần Văn Khắc went to live in Saigon, where he, Lương Thái, Huỳnh Văn Diệp, and Trần Con established the Cochinchinese Scout Association. Meanwhile Hoàng Đạo Thúy led the Northern branch. In 1975 he left South Vietnam for Canada. He died in Ottawa in 1990.