As COVID-19 evolves, it’s important for you to consider the risks and manage them appropriately. Remember to read all signage before entering any trail system.
When choosing to find PtboCountyCaches geocaches, we encourage you to:
- Stay home if you’re feeling sick
- Maintain 2m physical distancing with people outside of your social circle
- Carry hand sanitizer and use it before AND after contact with geocaches
Please note: cache containers are not officially sanitized at any time. If you do choose to open a cache, it is at your own risk.
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.
If you would like to participate in this initiative you can download a Travel Diary at (Geocaching at Peterborough & the Kawarthas Tourism). Find at least one geocache in each of the Townships, First Nations and in the City and stamp your Travel Diary. Once you have completed the Travel Diary, you can visit the Peterborough and the Kawartha’s Tourism office to pick up a limited geocoin. New coins in stock in 2018.
On the lid of the cache container you will see a stamp. If you have a stamp pad with you, great, use that to ink the stamp and stamp your Travel Diary. If not, use the crayon or the pencil in the cache container to "rub" the impression of the stamp on your Travel Diary.
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