Toronto City Police Station 4 Multi-Cache
Toronto City Police Station 4
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THE CACHE IS NOT AT THE POSTED COORDINATES
WELCOME TO WINNIPEG’S CULTURAL CENTRE
The Exchange District National Historic Site is Winnipeg’s original cultural and commercial centre. It is one of North America’s most colourful and cosmopolitan neighbourhoods. It offers an eclectic mix of dining, retail and cultural amenities. The 30-block district showcases North America’s most extensive collection of turn-of-the-twentieth-century architecture, with terracotta and stone cut buildings. The Exchange District is home to the Winnipeg’s unrivalled arts community.
With many of its buildings developed between 1881 and 1920, The Exchange District is one of the most historically intact turn-of-the-century urban areas in North America, and contains more than 100 buildings, warehouses, and terra cotta "skyscrapers" of that era.
The Exchange District’s name originates from the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, the former centre of the grain industry in Canada, as well as other commodity exchanges which developed in Winnipeg between 1881–1918, some of which are still active today.
By 1911, Winnipeg had become the third largest city in Canada with more than two dozen rail lines converging near the city center and with over 200 wholesale businesses. World War I from 1914-1918 as well as the opening of the Panama Canal in 1913 slowed its growth as there was a new route for shipping goods from Eastern Canada and Europe to Western Canada and from East Asia to the larger markets on the Eastern seaboard. After this period much of Winnipeg’s development shifted to Portage Avenue and streets to the south like Broadway and on towards Osborne Village. One advantage to the shift in development in Winnipeg at this time were that few Exchange District buildings were demolished to make way for more contemporary infrastructure and development in the subsequent decades. As a result, Winnipeg has one of the most historically intact early 20th century commercial districts in North America.
On September 27, 1997, the Winnipeg Exchange District was declared a National Historic Site by then federal Minister of Canadian Heritage, Sheila Copps.
Because of the Exchange District, Winnipeg has been referred to as “Chicago of the North”. The Exchange is often used as a filming location for many Hollywood films that require a turn of the century backdrop for their period piece. Hollywood directors, producers and local film crews have transformed some of the area’s 20-square blocks of nearly 150 heritage buildings into the dusty streets of old Kansas City, early Chicago, Denver, Houston, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles or even present day New York City.
But Toronto? Really?
Such films as Shall We Dance (2004), Capote (2005), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), You Kill Me (2007), and New in Town (2009) have used the Exchange District as a backdrop. Also, the HBO series Less Than Kind was filmed here.
This cache highlights one of the early external locations used for the first season of Murdoch Mysteries.
CACHE IS NOT AT THE POSTED COORDINATES
(But it is very very close by).
In order to find the cache, look across the street (to the south). You will notice a street number. This number will be your KEY.
You will find this magnetic micro by walking westward [KEY minus 303] metres (stay on the sidewalk). Then walk [KEY minus 298] metres in a southerly direction (again, cross the intersection safely and use the sidewalks).
You should now be at your target.
Please help this urban cache survive by watching for muggles, especially on weekdays during business hours, and by not signing the logsheet right at ground zero.
Please take note of which end has the magnet when replacing and close the lid tightly.
Attributes listing for paperless caching: Parking nearby, winter-friendly, not recommended at night, stealth required on weekdays during business hours, historic location, field puzzle (sort of), public transportation nearby, dogs allowed, takes less than 15 minutes, almost a park 'n grab.
Happy caching!
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Additional Hints
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