Founders Series 2: Thomas Thornhill Traditional Cache
Founders Series 2: Thomas Thornhill
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This is a micro cache due to muggle activity in the area. It's hidden on the edge of a pretty little park. Please take some time to enjoy the area and read the park's monument for a little history lesson.
In the late 1880's Eliza Wright; the sister of famous riverman, Walter Wright, travelled by canoe down the BC coast to work fields in the Fraser Valley. A young Engish blacksmith named Thomas Thornhill met and fell in love with her. She was a member of the House of Chiefs of Kitselas and had told him stories of her home on the Skeena. They married around 1891 and he followed her back to little canyon where they homesteaded. Little canyon is a narrowing of the Skeena River where the "old" Skeena River Bridge and the railway tracks to Kitimat now cross. Tom planted an orchard and gardens to sell produce to the riverboats and other travelers. The Thornhill's opened their home to many weary travellers who loved Tom's beautiful flowers. Eliza hunted for winter meat and trapped furs for shipment by riverboat to sell at Cunningham's in Port Essington. She trapped up Eliza Creek, named for her, and into the Jackpine Flats area. She died on the trapline in the winter of 1911. Tom died shortly afterwards. Today, there may still remain some of Tom's old apple trees as well as Eliza and Thornhill Creeks, Thornhill Mountain and, of course, the district of Thornhill.
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