GCG3TD GHMCMC Stage 2: Path from Times Gone By (Traditional Cache) in Ontario, Canada created by BullZie

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Hidden : 5/21/2003

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This cache is part of the GHMCMC Series which officially begins on the May Long Weekend of 2003

Stage 2 of the GHMCMC series.
Path from Times Gone By
by Bullzie

The Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario is the area around the western end of Lake Ontario, and includes such urban centers as Toronto, Mississauga, Oakville, Burlington, Hamilton, St. Catharines and Niagara Falls. For this cache series, we've extended the region to Newmarket in the northeast, Waterloo in the northwest, Port Dover in the southwest, and Fort Erie in the southeast. More than half of the population of Ontario lives in or around these cities.

The Golden Horseshoe Multi-Cacher Multi-Cache is a cooperative effort of fourteen local Geocachers. Each of the individual Stage caches may be treated as a normal, single cache. You can complete the 14 Stages in any order. Each Stage will include a *SECRET*, written on the underside of the cache container lid. Don't forget to write it down if you plan to tackle the Final Stage!

See the GHMCMC Final page for more details!

This cache is located down a trail that runs along the Feeder Canal which runs from Welland to Port Maitland. I have only been able to locate very limited details regarding it. It appears to have been constructed (dug) in order to allow Wainfleet and further access to the Welland Canal. If anyone out there happens to have more history, please drop me an email. The cache is about 400m of straight flat hard packed trail from the parking area. If you have a truck, or a car that you like to pretend is a truck, there are no physical barriers blocking you from driving down the trail other than the trail system is a No Motorized Vehicles zone.

After doing a little bit more research I have discoved that the Welland Library has the following site with some newspaper clippings regarding the Feeder Canal.

http://www.welland.library.on.ca/digital/clipping/Feedclip.htm

From reading the clippings, I discovered that the canal was constructed in 1826 and used 'until the latter part of the 1800s'. It was originally constructed to divert water from the Grand River to supplement the Welland Canal. From what I gather, the transportation benefits of it was a byproduct.

Enjoy!

As a sidebar, many of you are quite familiar with the controversy surrounding the original cache (of almost the same name) and what I have done is deleted all the logs that pertained to the original. This cache is now very much in the spirit of the event for which it is a part. For those of you who got the letter from Flick's log, all I ask is that you do not post this cache as a find unless you have actually been to it.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur pnpur fubhyq or pbirerq hc ol na byq synggrarq pneqobneq obk oruvaq n gerr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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