Toll Road Traditional Cache
Timo Explorer: It has run its course, time to say goodbye.
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DO NOT TRY TO ACCESS THIS CACHE FROM YONGE STREET/HIWAY 11.
There is no place to park safely along this road and you would have to cross a fence and a railway track. Please access only from Toll Road.
Yonge Street was conceived by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe as a military road connecting Lake Ontario with the upper Great Lakes. In the late 1790s, he had the Queens Rangers survey a road that ran straight as blazes from the shores of Lake Ontario to Holland Landing, about fifty kilometers north. It is doubtful that the original road as built was as straight as planned, but Yonge Street became the baseline upon which all lots and concessions were laid out in York County. The road was open from Lake Ontario to Holland Landing before the War of 1812.
Simcoe’s dream was to connect the road to the port of Penetanguishene. After his return to England, his successors continued that plan. In 1824, spurred by settlement to the north and west of Holland Landing, a TOLL ROAD was built, breaking off from the original baseline and heading northwest into what is now the city of Bradford.
Bradford was just a temporary terminus for the new road. Within a couple of years, the road extended north, approaching Kempenfelt Bay and the settlement of Barrie.
Cache is located just off of Toll Road, a three season access road that runs parallel to the hiway. Depending on the time of year and weather conditions you should be able to drive within a few metres of the cache.
Container is a camo-taped pill bottle. Bring your own pen/pencil. (special thanks to DRMOO for the history lesson)
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gjb zrgerf hc
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