P 2 PEI Series Mystery Cache
Olewaif: It is certainly with a heavy heart that I archive the caches of this series..my personal favorites of all my hides ! Still, no one was interested in adopting ( can't blame em ) , and they all must go so there is now a very nice road area not far from town clear of geocaches . Life goes on. All cache containers were retrieved .
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Cache containers in this series are all camoed pill bottles hanging on hooks on back of trees. Height is from 3- 6' up.
None of the coordinates shown are in any ways correct for finding the caches. They simply make the pattern I wanted in the water.
This puzzle cache series takes us on a tour of the 37 premiers of PEI ( plus a couple other people ) . You need to access the information page on the PEI provincial government site for each premier to obtain the numbers you need to fit in the formula to get the correct coordinates for each cache.
P 2 : John Myrie Holl
THERE IS NO OTHER PREMIER in the history of Prince Edward Island about whom so little is known as John Myrie Holl. Because he served in the post for only a few months and seems to have had little effort on the community in other matters, information about him is very scarce.
Holl was born in England, probably in Devon where there was a family estate called "Kenwith". Land records indicate that Holl purchased property on the Island in 1ABC and from this information it seems likely that he immigrated the same year. In a few years, he had acquired several hundred acres in the area between Winsloe and Milton, which he named "Kenwith" after the family estate in England.
Named to the Legislative Council in 1840, Holl obviously had political connections although the facts of his appointment are not clear. At a time when the family compact was being attacked in every colony, the governor, Charles Fitzroy, was careful to note that Holl was independently wealthy, connected to neither the proprietors, nor the government, nor the tenants.
In 1853, the Coles government was defeated at the polls and in early 1854 finally were forced to resign in the face of the Conservative majority in the House of Assembly. Edward Palmer, who led the Conservatives in the Assembly was asked to form an administration and Holl was chosen as leader of the government. Holl had been appointed rather than elected and as Premier was in the unique position of being leader of the government in a colony which had won responsible government only three years before, yet he had never been elected to any legislative post. A change in the franchise led the governor to call another election in June 1854 and Coles was returned as Premier.
Holl continued to sit in the Legislative Council until he returned to England, apparently in 1856. His death and burial there in 1DEF received only passing mention in the Island papers.
Coords: N 46 23.(ABC-634) W 062 58.(DEF-413)
Checksum N = 19 W = 36
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
uggc://jjj.tbi.cr.pn/cerzvreftnyyrel/vaqrk.cuc3
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