This cache has been placed for KACHE 4, an
annual event hosted by the Kingston and Area Geocachers (GC3573R).
This cache should not be found or logged until after 6:00 a.m.,
November 5th 2011.
The theme of this year’s event is
"Things that make Kingston Special" and the city's proximity to the
Cataraqui Trail, one of the longest rail trails in Ontario, is
certainly one of those special things. Beyond the Kingston Area,
Ontario is full of great rail trails and the caches along this
section of the Cataraqui Trail – once the Kingston, Napanee
and Western Railway – recognizes some of them.
The 47 km Elora – Cataract Trailway
links the Credit Valley Watershed in the east to the Grand River
Watershed in the west and communities such as Fergus, Orton,
Hillsburgh and Erin along the way and also skirts the south shore
of Lake Belwood.
The Elora Cataract Trailway was originally
the route of the Credit Valley Railway. The main line was
constructed in 1879 between Toronto and Orangeville, and the branch
line from Cataract to Elora was built at the same time. In 1883 the
Credit Valley was incorporated into the Ontario and Quebec Railway,
and the following year it was leased to the Canadian Pacific
Railway. It operated as the CPR's Elora subdivision until 1988 when
it was abandoned.
Map courtesy of the Elora-Cataract Trailway
Association.
