GC115NQ Crossword Cache, 24 Across - Spag's (Traditional Cache) in British Columbia, Canada created by Queens Borrowers

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A cache by Queens Borrowers Message this owner

Hidden : 4/15/2007

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

's Blitz 07: Crossword Cache, 24 Across

This is only one of fifteen crossword microcaches located in and around New Westminster.
In each microcache you will find a logbook with a word that is assigned to be the answer on the main crossword page here
When you have completed the crossword, the final cache location should reveal itself.

Some Queensborough History

1859, February 14
Queensborough was proclaimed as the site of the new capital of British Columbia. Later it will be renamed New Westminster. (Historical coincidence: Oregon became a state on the same day).

1860, July 17
New Westminster was incorporated. It's the oldest incorporated municipality west of Ontario.

1914
The Canadian Northern Railway built a line across Lulu Island from Queensborough to Steveston. A few years later peat fires would destroy much of the railway.

1960
The Queensborough highway bridge was built. “The City of New Westminster built this $4-million bridge over the North Arm of the Fraser,” wrote Robert Harris in The Greater Vancouver Book, “for access to its suburb of Queensborough at the east end of Lulu Island, and to the Annacis Industrial Estate to the south. It has since become a feeder to Route 91 and the 1986 Alex Fraser (Annacis) Bridge. Queensborough was a toll bridge until bought by the provincial government in November 1966.”

An early Queensborough bridge has had an interesting history. It was built in 1913 by B.C. Electric Railway for rail access to the industrialized end of Lulu Island. Cars could use it, too. The bridge continues in rail freight service to Annacis Island, but was closed to highway traffic in 1960, after the high-level, four-lane Queensborough Bridge was built a little to the west..

The cache is located in Queensborough, near the old Spagnol's Supermart. Now closed, the store used to be one of only two corner stores in Queensborough.

LM