Chilliwack: the "Heart of the Valley" is made up of 14 Villages - In this series of 14 caches we will introduce you to each of those Villages. When you have solved the puzzle for all 14 of the caches your smiley faces will produce the shape of a heart in the Eastern portion of Chilliwack. In each of the 14 caches you will find information which you must record in order to find the Final cache in this series, the "Heart of Hearts" cache.
We hope you enjoy your trip around the area and the cache locations we have selected for this series. Have fun and if possible involve the whole family in solving the puzzles and finding the caches, they are meant to be "family friendly".
The completion of the Yale-New Westminster Wagon Road in 1873/1874 led directly to the settlement of Rosedale. J.C. Henderson and T.H. Henderson acquired land near the present town site in the early 1880s.A host of others followed. By 1890, there were enough families in the area to warrant building a school. This original one-room school, with fifteen students, was located at the corner of Yale and McGrath Roads. This corner became the commercial centre of the community. There have been a variety of businesses located at this busy corner since the turn of the century, including a bank, stores, restaurants, garages, rooming house and post office. The corner remains the centre for the community.
The area's population boomed beginning in the 1890s. This boom lasted for more than thirty years, fuelled by the logging, railway and farming industries. This was a transition period for Rosedale as sawmills were replaced by farmhouses.
During this period the Methodist Church (1908) and Anglican (1912) churches were built; a hotel (1910), a new-four room school (1914), community hall (1925) and some of the community’s outstanding heritage farmhouses. Many of these buildings still stand and link this early period to today.
All information was obtained from the Chilliwack Museum and Archives Website- Visit them ""Here"
In order to find this cache you will need to solve this Wordoku which uses the letters A thru I.
The cache is at: N49 0A.BCD and W121 EF.GHI
The formula to produce the co-ordinates is as follows:
A = Row 1 - Col 2 B = Row 2 - Col 3 C = Row 3 - Col 8
D = Row 4 - Col 7 E = Row 5 - Col 6 F = F = 0
G = Row 7 - Col 9 H = Row 8 - Col 1 I = Row 9 -Col 6
