The Present in the Past Traditional Cache
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A small camoflaged film canister -- logbook only -- please bring a pencil.
It would be helpful if log was replaced in the tiny ziploc bag so it can stay dry. Parking nearby on residential streets.
Not-Your-Average Toronto Tour – Stop One – Casa Loma
Casa Loma is the only medieval-style castle in North America. The castle is full of comfort and elegance. Inside the castle there‘re secret corridors, an 800 ft. long passageway leading to stables, towers, and a splendid 5-acre garden filled with beautiful flowers. On the outside of the castle you can visit its award-winning gardens and a stunning fountain in the front of the building. The castle was built with expensive woods and stone, including mahogany and oak panels and Italian marble floors. Casa Loma is decorated with artwork from Canada and around the world. There is also a hunting lodge near the castle that’s connected to Casa Loma by an underground tunnel.
The builder of Casa Loma was a Canadian named Sir Henry Mill Pellatt. He’d made his money from real estate and hydro electrical power generating. In Niagara Falls he started one of his electrical stations. He soon became successful and in 1911 he made $17 million and started his strategies for building Casa Loma, his dream house by architect E. J. Lennox. To accomplish his dream he went through many hardships because he’d needed about $3,500,000 and the time of 3 years to build the castle, but it wasn’t completed because of bankruptcy. In the end, he had to sell Casa Loma.
The Not-Your-Average Toronto Tour is a result of a 2011 grade 9 Geography of Canada student project. Students designed their own Geocaching.com pages based on sites important to Toronto’s cultural, physical, ecological, and economic landscape. The top six student projects have been placed and published. The final site (in the Rouge Valley) has a larger geocache filled with items that represent all six sites from the 2011 project.
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