St. Mary's Cemetery - Calgary Parks 100 Traditional Cache
Hidden : 4/27/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:




Calgary Parks 100 Project - Calgary Area Cachers teaming up with The City of Calgary Parks

Park at the parking coordinates and proceed outside the fence to search for the cache. Sit on the near by bench to sign the log. Please be respectful of the area and return to search if the area is in use.

St. Mary's Cemetery consists of 7.1 hectares of land where there are 15,018 burials.

Cemetery History
Though Union Cemetery is now Calgary's oldest graveyard, it was not the first.

In 1876, the year after the Redcoats built their stockade, the Roman Catholic mission established St. Mary's Cemetery. It was originally located roughly where the Holy Cross parking lot now stands.

When the City of Calgary assumed management of St. Mary's in 1935, the early graves were exhumed and moved to their current location on the west side of Macleod Trail. The site remains a Catholic cemetery. The Jewish and Chinese communities maintain their own cemeteries in the immediate area and two private burial grounds just east of City limits also serve Calgary.

Celebrating Calgary Parks 100th Anniversary!
The Calgary Parks 100 Project is a partnership between The City of Calgary Parks, and the Calgary Area Cachers to celebrate Calgary Parks 100th anniversary. Calgary Parks has supplied cache containers and swag for 100 caches, and then we have placed these 100 caches in 100 parks around Calgary. These caches have some cool swag and trackables when placed, so make sure to find them as soon as they are published.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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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