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.
The "Cavan Blazers", most active during the 1840s-1870s, were a notorious group of young Protestant men who were also key members of the Loyal Orange Order. These Orangemen were renowned by Protestants for their generosity to the poor, sick, orphaned, or widowed. However, history may better recall their staunch social & political views, pranks & exploits on friends & foes, and fiery conflicts with “green” Irish Catholic settlers.
Local Orange-Green conflicts were especially common on the “green” St. Patrick’s Day every March 17th and The Twelfth (or Orangemen’s Day) on July 12th. Battles were fought with fists, swords, muskets, cannons, and flames – the latter a possible source for the Blazers’ name.
One devout Roman Catholic, Mr. Patrick Maguire, was married to a Fannie Choate of the Church of England. Together with their 5 children, they lived on the 6th concession of Cavan in the midst of the Blazers’ stronghold. A skillful farmer, Justice of the Peace, and military captain, Paddy was also a leading organizer of the first fair held here in the district of Millbrook.
Despite Paddy’s “amicable relationship” with the Orangemen around him, the Blazers took exception to the monthly Roman Catholic masses conducted in his home and set fire to the rear of his house while a visiting priest was mid-service one Sunday. From this came their slogan, “To hell with the Pope and Paddy Maguire!”
Source: Millbrook and Cavan Historical Society. 1990. This Green & Pleasant Land: Chronicles of Cavan Township. pp. 34-39.