K & P Ticket - FLOWER Traditional Cache
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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:
Flower Station is in Lavant Township, Lanark County. The terrain here is wild, for this was lumbering and mining country too. This was good hunting country too, for the K L& P brought hunters and fishermen out to this district for many years. In the early days of settlement, one settler alone is said to have killed 82 wolves and 68 bears not far from here.
Flower was named after the wealthy Flower family of New York. One man, Col. G.W. Flower, was in charge of the building of this section of the line.
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, 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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