Canada's Most Patriotic Village Multi-Cache
Canada's Most Patriotic Village
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In November 1942, the Toronto Star ran a front page headline that read "Arthur Village Gives Sons and Money to Aid the War", and recognized Arthur as the "Most Patriotic Village in Canada", as one out of every seven Arthur residents fought in the Second World War. At that time 126 residents had enlisted from the population of 890. It was the highest ratio in comparison to villages of comparable sizes in Canada. By the end of the war, 338 Arthur residents had enlisted, and 25 were killed in action.
During the first war bond campaign, the village of Arthur was the first community in Arthur to reach their quota within a few minutes. Arthur also led the communities in Wellington for every other war and victory bond campaign and surpassed all objectives that had been set. By the end of the fourth campaign, Arthur had raised a total of $250,000 which was an amount equal to 64% of the assessed value of the villages taxable property.
In 2002, David Tilson, MPP for Dufferin-Peel-Wellington-Grey stated in the Ontario legislature, that because of the village of Arthur’s extraordinary World War II record, the community was now being recognized as “Canada’s Most Patriotic Village”.
To complete this Multi-cache:
1) Count the total number of names on the main cenotaph (including those on the Honour Roll for WWI [1914-1918], WWII [1939-1945], and the Korean War [1950-1953]).
2) Find the most common last name on the cenotaph, count the number of family members, and cube that number.
3) Take the number you have for #1, and divide it by the answer for #2.
Add this number to the following:
N 43 49.472
W 080 32.947
Please take the time to read all of the plaques.
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Additional Hints
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[Puzzle Clue 2] 100 yrff guna gur ynetrfg cevzr snpgbe bs 123456
[Final] Pbssrr Pna ba Pebgpu bs Gerr
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