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E6 - Gordon Bennett : Famous P. E. Islanders Mystery Cache

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Olewaif: This series being replaced by a new group of caches nearby. Many thanks to all who visited this group and for the many kind remarks both on logs and in person that I received.

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Hidden : 12/5/2017
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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In a gnarly cluster 

 

Gordon Lockhart BennettOC (October 10, 1912 – February 11, 2000) was a Canadian teacher, politician and the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.

Born in CharlottetownPrince Edward Island, he received a Bachelor of Science in 1937 and a Master of Science in Chemistry in 1947 from Acadia University. He started to teach in a school and joined the faculty of the department of Chemistry at Prince of Wales College in 1939.

In 1966, he was elected as a Liberal candidate as a representative of 5th Queens. He was re-elected in 1970 and 1974. From 1966 to 1XXX, he held ministerial positions in the government of Premier Alex Campbell including President of the Executive Council, Minister of Education, Minister of Justice, Provincial Secretary and Chairman of Provincial Centennial Commission.

He was Lieutenant Governor from October 24, 1974 to January 14, 1980.

He was inducted into Canadian Curling Hall of Fame as a builder.

In 1YYY, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He was created a Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John in 1975.

 

For each cache in this series access biography of the famous PEI person from the provided URL and discover the XXX and YYY  numbers in the biography.. Apply those to formula to get actual coords of cache

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Lockhart_Bennett

 

N 46 23.(XXX - 018)  W 062 50.(YYY - 116) 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

va taneyl pyhfgre

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)