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.
Henry Calcutt was born in Cobourg in 1837, the son of Irish-born brewer and distiller James Calcutt. Henry learned the brewing business while working with/for his father, then moved to Peterborough in 1855 and leased Arthur Peck’s brewery, at what is now Rogers’ Cove, for ten years.
In 1863, the Peck brewery burned, so Henry constructed his own brewery on riverfront land that he purchased from Reverend Mark Burnham – now Riverside Park and the site of the Lions’ Centre. His brewery was in operation by 1865, and became a success making English-style dark ale and porter.
In 1897, Henry Calcutt hired a Bavarian brewmeister and changed to the production of German-style light lager. Calcutt’s Trent Valley Lager was an immediate success – partly because of shrewd marketing as “temperance beer”.
Henry Calcutt died in 1913, but three of his daughters ran the brewery until 1916, when it was closed – a victim of Canada’s Prohibition legislation.