Toronto Grey and Bruce Railway Traditional Cache
Toronto Grey and Bruce Railway
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A quick cache along the old Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway, now a hiking/snowmobile trail.
The railway boom of the late 1800's must have been one of the most exciting times in rural Ontario. The invention of the steam locomotive brought a whole new age of travel to many parts of the world - the 'Age of Progress'. The first railway in Ontario was opened in 1853, and by 1900 the southern part of the province had been criss-crossed by dozens of different railway lines. One of these was the Toronto Grey and Bruce, built from Toronto to Owen Sound, with a branch line west from Orangeville to Teeswater. Railways demanded 'bonuses' of money to route the line through a community - Flesherton refused in this case, leaving the railway to be built slightly to the west, through the tiny hamlet of Ceylon. Built originally as a narrow gauge railway, it included the notorious (and deadly) Horseshoe Curve where the railway rose over the Niagara Escarpment at the Forks of the Credit, near Caledon. The line eventually became part of the CPR system, and stayed in service until 1995. It is now a great community trail, from just south of Flesherton to Owen Sound, following closely along Highway 10. The cache is under a cedar tree, just 40 or 50 paces from the sideroad, on the west side of the trail - take the first sideroad west south of Markdale, until you see the obvious trail crossing with its gates. At this location the trail is bordered by the headwaters of the Rocky Saugeen River, forming a small interesting wetland.
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