The Evangeline Dayliner service was inaugurated by Canadian Pacific's subsidiary the Dominion Atlantic Railway in 1956 upon receipt of several Budd Rail Diesel Cars, which replaced conventional trains. Despite being operated by the DAR, their schedules were integrated with the entire CPR passenger system and made connections with CPR passenger/vehicle ferry service from Saint John, New Brunswick at Digby, as well as CNR passenger service at Halifax and DAR's mixed freight/passenger service at Windsor. Via Rail Canada took over CPR passenger service in 1978 and fully integrated operations in 1979. Via continued to operate the RDC equipment on the Halifax-Yarmouth route along the DAR and gave its trains the name Evangeline in 1983, following several highly successful years at a time of record-high gasoline prices.
The Cache is not at the posted coordinates.
In order to find the cache you will need to solve a simple puzzle.
In what year did trains begin running between Montreal and Toronto. = ABCD
Now some simple math For the North subtract (A) (C) (D) (A) / 1000 from the posted coords
For the West subtract (B-A) (B) (C) /1000 from the posted coords
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.
York Region Geocachers Club, in association with Kortright Centre for Conservation, hosts the annual YRGC Weekend Geofest each Spring to introduce the general public to our game along with social and interactive opportunities for veteran geocachers. Included in those opportunities we teamed up to present the Geofest Express where all geocache varieties are available for the finding.
We have expanded out of the park to bring you a series of caches from Bolton to the northern edge of Kortright and on surrounding trails. Based on Canadian railways and passenger trains, the Geofest Express geocaches are made up of both `Park and Grabs` and an additional hiking section. No tickets are required on this historic journey. Get on the track to Geofest! ALL ABOARD!
More information on the Geofest Express and YRGC Weekend Geofest found here.