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This is a 9 stage multicache that will take you through a tour of the Mount Hope Cemetery. 3 of the stages will provide you with the North coordinates of the hidden cache; 3 other stages will provide you with the West coordinates; and 3 stages will provide you with the 3 numbers required to access the cache.
Cache is located outside of the cemetery.
Congratulations to F33APILOT on being FTF.
PLEASE NOTE: NO DOGS ARE ALLOWED WITHIN THE CEMETERY.
BAYVIEW ENTRANCE: N 43 42.910 W 79 22.679 DAILY HOURS: 8am thru 4:30 pm.
ERSKINE ENTRANCE: N 43 42.816 W 79 23.202 DAILY HOURS: 8am thru 7:30 pm.
Mount Hope Cemetery was the second Catholic cemetery in Toronto not attached to any parish and now is the only active Catholic cemetery within city limits. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, land in the northern portion of the cemetery was reclaimed and opened up for burials. The original northern limit of usable land was marked by a line of trees, which can still be seen today. It was the land beyond these trees which the cemetery added to its acreage. To date, there have been 76,000 burials in Mount Hope Cemetery. All spaces have been taken, but the cemetery plans to close several roads for future graves and to build a columbarium for cremated remains. A walking tour of Mount Hope will reveal a great variety of striking memorials. There are handsome and solid-looking mausoleums, beautiful Celtic crosses, no two of which are the same, and scores of touching tributes to the deceased.
Among those buried in Mount Hope Cemetery are prelates and priests, religious men and women, husbands and wives, judges and politicians, soldiers and sailors, the knighted and the bemedalled, Canadian Olympians, bankers and industrialists, philanthropists, writers, the old Irish Catholic elite even a few bank robbers and some ordinary people who lost their lives in tragic circumstances. Among the notables buried here are: Morley Callaghan, F. M. “King” Clancy, Francis Deck, Founder of Fran’s Restaurants, and Frederick Tilston VC. For more details on the history of this cemetery or for biographical sketches of some of those buried here read “A History of Mount Hope Cemetery Toronto Ontario 1898 to 1998” by Michael Power Published by Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of Toronto.
My wife’s (Judith Anglin) great aunt Mary Margaret Anglin was a Canadian-born Broadway actor, director and producer whom Encyclopedia Britannica calls "one of the most brilliant actresses of her day." She is also buried in Mount Hope Cemetery and your tour will take you to her burial site.
Mount Hope Multi-Cache
1 Name: Rev Edmund B Lawler Crypt
Coordinates: N43 42.860, W79 22.998
Question: What year was crypt erected?
Answer:
Take the last 2 digits of your answer & subtract 2
This is 1 of 3 numbers required to access cache
2 Name: Loretto Abbey Nuns Laid to Rest
Coordinates: N43 42.798, W79 23.135
Question: What year did Sr. M. Serena Doyle die?
Answer:
Add sum of the 4 digits of your answer & add 25
This is north degrees of the cache
3 Name: Foy Memorial
Coordinates: N43 42.836, W79 23.130
Question: What year was M E (Betty)Tuckey born
Answer:
Subtract year of Canadian Confederation from your answer.
This is north minutes of the cache
4 Name: Holy Rosary Columbarium Garden
Coordinates: N43 42.885, W79 23.014
Question: What year was Annie Bunt born?
Answer:
Subtract 201 from your answer. Take last 3 digits.
This is the west seconds of the cache.
5 Name: MMAH - Margaret Anglin (on ground in front of Celtic cross)
Coordinates: N43 42.878, W79 23.002
Question: What year was Margaret Born & what year did she die?
Answer:
Add the year MMAH was born + the year she died. Add 20. Then subtract 3844
This is 1 of 3 numbers required to access cache
6 Name: Christ Ascends into Heaven
Coordinates: N43 42.940, W79 22.977
Question: What Book of John is the quote from? (no verse)
Answer:
Add baker's dozen to your answer & subtract 5.
This is west minutes of the cache.
7 Name: Small Columbarium 1
Coordinates: N43 42.957, W79 22.923
Question: What year was Mr Blazo born? (handsome picture)
Answer:
Divide your answer by 5, then divide the result by the number of Stooges. Then subtract 50.
This is the west degrees of the cache.
8 Name: Small Columbarium 2
Coordinates: N43 42.917, W79 22.902
Question: What year was the woman who lived into her 100th year born? (hint-her full name is total of 10 characters)
Answer:
Subtract number of degrees in a circle from your answer. Then subtract 1514.
This is 1 of 3 numbers required to access cache
9 Name: Fox's Gravesite
Coordinates: N43 42.929, W79 22.845
Question: What year was Margaret Fox born?
Answer:
Take first 3 digits of your answer and add 21.
This is the north seconds of the cache.
PLEASE NOTE: SILLY US BUT WE FORGOT THE CORRECT SEQUENCE OF THE 3 NUMBERS REQUIRED TO ACCESS THE CACHE. OH WELL - I'M SURE YOU WILL FIGURE THIS OUT.
TIM HORTONS GIFT CARD FOR FTF. ENJOY!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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