This cache has been placed as part of an initiative by the County of Peterborough, its member municipalities, the City of Peterborough and local First Nation communities to celebrate Canada 150+. There are 23 geocaches placed throughout the region showcasing local history.
The geocoin stock has now been exhausted. Please continue to enjoy exploring local history through other geocaches within the Canada 150+ collection.
GC Codes full list: GC74A7F - Payne Murders & First Execution, GC74A76 - Victoria Museum at "Inverlea", GC72PWE - Memengweshii, GC72PWP - Historic Curve Lake Village, GC72PX1 - Old Rail Road Stop, GC72PXA - Hiawatha Church, GC72VFW - Sucker Hunt at "Welbeck", GC74A7Q - Richard Birdsall, GC74A7V - John Deyell, GC74A7Y - Cavan Blazers & Paddy Maguire, GC72VG3 - Balm for her Wounded Heart, GC72VGA - Sedgwick Lime Kiln Park, GC72WDJ - Nepheline Syenite A Global Lustre, GC75D68 - Havelock Public School, GC72WDT - The Brush Factory, GC72VGJ - Sam Edgar Crypt, GC72VGQ - Nelson Brawl at the Keene Hotel, GC75D6H - Lang Grist Mill, GC72VGW - Catharine Parr Traill, GC72WDZ - The Pope Stallion, GC75D5Q - Adam & Eve Rocks, GC74A8B - Going to School on the Oregon Trail.
Julius (Jules) Sämann, a German-Jewish chemist who had fled the Nazis, and his financial partner, John N. (Jack) Brown, established the "Brush Factory" near this spot in the early 1940s. The Dominion Essential Oil Company cut local balsam and cedar brush and "cooked" it in a hand-made still to process it into oil.
Sämann, an inventive German chemist, experimented with the use of the oil in the production of hand lotion, perfume and cleaning solvent which was successful in North America & Europe during World War II. While the Canadian market for these products was lost following the war, a contract to supply cedar leaf oil for use in Vick's Vaporub was secured. Brown took over this business in 1948. Sämann took the expertise gained here and moved to Watertown, New York where a chance conversation with a milkman in 1952 about the stench of spoiled milk in his delivery truck led Sämann to invent the Little Tree air fresheners found on rear-view mirrors around the world today.
Sources:
Lavery, Doug and Mary. 2007. Up the Burleigh Road… beyond the boulders. p. 89
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/magazine/who-made-little-tree-air-fresheners.html
http://www.shahji.org/LittleTrees.net.in/index.html