K & P Ticket - SHARBOT LAKE Traditional Cache
K & P Ticket - SHARBOT LAKE
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A match container hidden in a winter friendly location.
One of 26 caches placed along the Northern section of the K & P trail. As you go along, watch for clues in many of the caches! These clues will help you find two more bonus caches ("K & P Ticket - KICK" (GC4BF9H) and "K & P Ticket - PUSH" (GC4BFA0))
ABOUT THE STATION THAT THIS CACHE IS NAMED AFTER:
First settlers at what later became the community of Sharbot Lake are said to have been a Mohawk couple, Mr. & Mrs. Francis Sharbot. Sharbot Lake is situated in Oso township in lovely countryside, which attracts tourists from all over North America. A journalist writing in 1881, reported that “Sharbot Lake is a beautiful sheet of water, situated about 45 miles north of Kingston, and 16 miles south of the Mississippi. It is destined to be a place of considerable importance.”
It was important for a time. The K & P reached here in 1876 and in 1880 the Toronto-Ottawa line went through the same community, and Sharbot Lake became an important junction. Manufactured goods, lumber and cheese were all shipped from here, and cream came from many regions served by the K & P to the Kingston Creamery at Sharbot Lake.
HISTORY:
The Kingston and Pembroke Railway (K & P) was a Canadian railway that operated in eastern Ontario. The railway was seen as a business opportunity by business people in Kingston, Pembroke, Montreal and New York. It would support the lumber (especially pine lumber which was in high demand across Canada and the United States) and mining industries, as well as the agricultural economy in eastern Ontario.
Incorporated in 1871, the K&P was intended to run from Kingston to Pembroke. By 1884, approximately 180 km of mainline and sidings had been laid, reaching Renfrew where it ceased after 12 years of construction. The K & P never did reach Pembroke. On January 1, 1913, the K & P Railroad officially became part of the CPR. The line was gradually abandoned beginning in the 1950s, with the last operating section from Kingston to Tichborne closing in 1986. The K & P is affectionately remembered as the Kick and Push railroad.
PARKING:
If doing these caches with someone else, I would suggest leaving a car at the far end of this series of caches and parking the other at the beginning. The order you do these caches is not important. If doing them on your own, then I would suggest you park where the trail crosses 132 south of Renfrew. That way you can pick up more water/food when you pass by. All three parking areas are quite safe.
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