Welcome to Atlantic Canada’s Hidden Histories Geotour Part 2!
You’ve located another stop in this set of geocaches that are part of the Atlantic Canada’s Hidden Histories 2 GeoTour. Find the 9 geocaches which are located in Nova Scotia and earn a Geocoin.
About this location:
Now the campus of Kings-Edgehill school, this campus is the original site of Kings College, now located in Halifax on the campus of Dalhousie University. In the late eighteenth century Windsor was a thriving loyalist enclave of well connected colonial social elites. This group helped found Kings College, the region’s first university. In the early stages of Loyalist settlement, the region was a vast region of interconnected hamlets focusing on natural resources. The main source of wealth at this time was in trade with the slave plantations in the British Caribbean. Many founding members of the university, and for that matter, the upper echilons of Nova Scotian soceity, generated their wealth through the toils of enslaved labour, and probably themselves kept enslaved Africans. The buildings of old the King’s College are a testament to the economic power of the slave economy. Despite being refugees of the losing royalist cause in the Thirteen Colonies, ample wealth was available to not only build necessary colonial infrastructure, but also the bastions of higher education.
More About the Geotour
You’ve located a stop in the ACHH Geotour, which as of Oct 21st, 2023 consists of 27 geocaches divided into two phases. Initially launched in July of 2022, this Geotour aims to highlight various diverse and sometimes relatively unknown histories in Atlantic Canada. It will continue to grow. The first 2 phases of the tour highlight Black History in Atlantic Canada. In Phase 1 there are two segments with six locations in New Brunswick, and eight locations in Nova Scotia. Each of these segments has their own geocoin and passport, the link for which is provided in relevant cache descriptions. Caches in Phase 1 start with ACHH: in their name. Caches in Phase 2 start with ACHH2: in their name. This cache is part of Phase 2.
In order to participate in the Tour, you will obtain a passport that you will take with you as you visit each location. When you find the geocache, in addition to signing the log sheet, you must sign your passport with the included passcode (under the geocache container lid at each location). Once you have a completed passport, you can submit it to receive your geocoin.
To learn more about Atlantic Canada’s Hidden Histories GeoTour, visit the website.
You can download the Nova Scotia passport ACHH2 Passport Final.pdf - Google Drive
You may pick up your Nova Scotia geocoin by making an appointment with (or mailing to) :
Kirrily Freeman
Professor, History Department
Director, Outreach and Experiential Learning, Faculty of Arts
923 Robie St,Saint Mary's University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3C4
Kirrily.Freeman@smu.ca
Alternatively you may mail your completed passport to the address above and your geocoin will be mailed to you.
Atlantic Canada’s Hidden Histories GeoTour is a collaborative project between the City of Fredericton, National Trust for Canada, the Capital Region Association of Geocachers, Saint Mary's University, and the Association of Nova Scotia Geocaching. We acknowledge that caches of this tour are placed in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people. The territory of the Mi’kmaq people are recognized in the Peace and Friendship Treaties to establish an ongoing relationship of peace, friendship and mutual respect between equal nations.
