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Thornhill Pop Quiz Mystery Cache

Hidden : 7/19/2017
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

A quick little history pop quiz on Thornhill!  Don't worry, you'll do fine!  Once you have solved the puzzle you can head right over to find the nano cache (BYOP, log only) in a Thornhill Park less than 2 km from posted coordinates.  We keep hearing Canada 150 this year (2017) but in fact that is just the year of Confederation; Thornhill was a bustling village decades before confederation.

CONGRATS TO DUANG FOR FTF!

This cache should be a relatively easy puzzle to solve using google and a calculator.  All questions are in regards to Thornhill, Ontario. CACHE IS NOT AT POSTED COORDINATES

N 43° 48.ABC  W 079°25.XYZ

 

A = The number of acres of land (approximately) in Thornhill; John Simcoe offered to pioneer settlers in 1792; divided by 100.

B = The last digit of the year Thornhill was named and granted a local post office.

C = The year Benjamin Thorne set up a warehouse in York exporting grain and importing iron; divided by 364.

X = The population of Thornhill in 1848; divided by 100.

Y = The last digit of the year William Berczy cleared Yonge Street North to Thornhill.

Z = The second digit of the year the Metropolitan Radial Railway reached Thronhill bringing commuters to and from Toronto.

 

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

terra zntargvp

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)