While looking for a new location for a Geocache, I came across this Honour Roll Tree, Pinus strobus.
I searched through a number of websites, attempting to dredge up some information on this particular tree, but it appears this information is not publically available on the Internet.
So unfortunately, I have no specific information on this particular tree. But I can tell you this:
Pnius strobus Historical Facts:
• the white pine was never used as a Christmas tree because it is often not symmetrical, and for years no one but approved lumbermen could cut them down
• for generations, upwards of a third of the income of the provincial government came from white pine auctions and fees
• when early settlers arrived in Ontario, the land was covered with over 50 species of hardwoods and softwoods. The most common trees were the red pine and the white pine
• white pine trees in favourable soils once reached upwards of ninety metres in height and fifty cm in diameter
• major early use of white pine was for squared timber for main masts, bow sprits, yards, and spars for the ships of the British Navy.
• some pine was sawn in the early days in water-powered sawmills for local use