This puzzle cache is being put out for GAG31 by waxwing454 and MAPSIT. October 20, 2023. This cache was placed with the intention of being found for GAG31. The cache is not at the posted coordinates; going there will not help you find the cache.
The puzzle, based on classic rock/pop/country/folk songs made famous by Canadian A-list (hence the cache title) musical artists, is intended to be easy. Basically, for each of nine intermediate values (A through i) that will, with some really simple subsequent calculations, give you the cache coordinates, you draw on your knowledge of Canadian A-listers and their music to fill in some blanks, and then take the digital root of the product of the two alpha-sum values associated with the blanks for that letter, i,e., multiply the alpha-sum values together, and take the digital root of that product, to give you the single digit value for the letter.
The actual procedure is rather easier than the preceding explanation. More specifically, for each letter/value, there are two blanks - one is the missing word in a well-known song title, and the other is part of the name of the performer or group. Most of you will know all, or at least most, of these without needing to look anything up, but, just in case, to further reduce any uncertainty, we include the numbers of characters for each of the words or names, And there’s even a geochecker for the derived coordinates.
To be even more clear, should it be helpful, here’s a worked example of this procedure, with X as the value to be derived..Suppose the item is given as —
X: “Jagged Little ___ (4)”, last name of the performer __ (10).
To fill in the blanks, you “just might” hypothesize Pill and Morissette. Those word and name contents for the two blanks yield alpha sums of 49 and 142 respectively. The product of those two values is 6958, and the digital root of 6958 is 1, so X = 1. Easy peasy! Now, the ones you’ll actually use for your calculations are as follows:
A: “Famous Blue ____” (8), first name of the performer ____ (7)..
B: “Big ____ (6) Taxi”, last name of the performer ____ (8).
C: “If I Had a ____ Dollars” (7), last word in the name of the group ____(6).
D: “Canadian Railroad ____ “ (7), last name of the performer ____ (9).
E: “Rockin’ in the Free ____” (5), first name of the performer ____ (4).
F: “You Needed ____” (2), last name of the performer ____ (6).
G: “It’s All ____ (6) Back to Me Now”, last name of the performer ____ (4)
H: “Now That the Buffalo’s ____” (4), last (hyphenated) name of the performer ____ (11)
i: “The____ (7) Night of the Year”, first name of the performer ____ (5)
And in the promised simple calculations portion of the puzzle, the cache can be found at
N 45 [D] [E-D]. [B+H] [F] [G], W 075 [C-D] [F-E] .[i-C] [G-H-B-D] [A-G-H]
where each expression in square brackets provides a single digit, and these collectively give the cache location in the usual N DD MM.MMM, W DDD MM.MMM format
Many thanks to The Burrow for his help in beta-testing the puzzle. We accept the full responsibility for any remaining errors.