All roads lead to Canborough Multi-Cache

This is a nice quick little 2-stage multi. The coordinates will bring you a plaque placed in the Melick Cemetery in honour of Benjamin Canby, the founder of Canborough township.

All roads lead to Canborough. It is said that when he laid out the township, Benjamin Canby made sure that all roads led to his new village, which he named after himself. A glance at a modern map will show that roads from six different directions converge at the village of Canborough.

Benjamin Canby is buried in the pioneer section of the Melick cemetery. This marker is located at N 42° 59.458 W 079° 40.111 - you don't need this to find the final. I just thought I would throw it in.

Benjamin Canby was a Quaker born in Buck's County, Pennsylvania. He moved to the Niagara region where by 1792 he had built a sawmill at 12 Mile Creek near St. Johns village. Later, he operated a tannery and a ferry. With John McGill he built the first Bridgewater Mills in the Dufferin Island area of Niagara Falls. Eventually Canby settled at the Indian Trail crossing of the Oswego Creek, later to be known as Canby Town. He brought in settlers and blazed trails designed to converge at his mill and store. He leased a 600-acre strip of land from Joseph Brant that now lays within the present boundaries of Paris. He later sold this to the first settlers of Paris, Christopher and William Holme.

Canby purchased a 19,500 acre parcel of Grand River land from Captain John Dochstader for £5,000 (some sources indicate that "in some irregular manner, he managed to get possession, and refused to execute the mortgage as agreed upon or to pay the money"). Canby was described in the Illustrated Historical Atlas of Counties Haldimand and Norfolk, as ''thrifty, energetic and far-seeing, and although a Quaker, not overly scrupulous in his dealings." *

The first settlers Canby brought in were John Byers and John Miller followed by Peter Swick, Matthew Smith and Peter Melnick. When the early settlers came to Canboro there were no roads to reach the township, they had to ascent the Chippewa and Oswego creeks by boat, bringing all their possessions by this conveyances. Canboro was formerly well timbered with pine and oak. A steam saw mill was operated at the village by Mr Crane. William Fitch , a relative of Canby's came from New York State in 1832 and became a successful man in the village, owning mills, a store and becoming the first Post Master. * These lands were later incorporated as a township and named in Canby's honour.

To find the cache, you will need to determine the final coordinates from the information above and on the plaque at Stage 1.

Using the Stage 1 coordinates N 42° 59.504 W 079° 40.057
North offset = subtract (A + B) / 1000
West offset = add (D - C) / 1000

There's a toonie in the cache for the FTF so you can get yourself a coffee on me!