GC5XHX6 Put the Cart Before the...........Ox? (Traditional Cache) in Manitoba, Canada created by Pika78

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A cache by Pika78 Message this owner

Hidden : 6/14/2015

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

There is a great trail that runs around Lake Minnewasta (there are also several caches along said trail) that the locals, and others, like to use frequently. Parking the for the cache and the trail is only a short walk away. We enjoy learning something new when we head out to cache and so we hope that you will learn something at this spot as well, and enjoy.

In 1802 Alexander Henry the Younger, a partner in the Northwest Company, built a trading post at a spot one and a half miles southwest of the present Morden and named it Pinancewaywining Post. It was here that the “Red River Ox Cart” was first conceived and built. The establishment of fur trading here by the Northwest Company brought the first settlers – the Métis. In the valleys west of Morden they lived for decades. (http://mordenmb.com/discover-morden/history-heritage/history)

*Upon placing the cache we saw no poisonous plants and got no ticks - but we have marked it as an attribute because ya never know.

Congrats to Old Guys 21 on a super quick FTF! :)

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