ACHH2: Highfield Cemetery (Charlottetown) Multi-Cache
Hidden : 4/3/2024
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:


Welcome to Atlantic Canada’s Hidden Histories (ACHH) Geotour

  You’ve located another stop in this set of geocaches that are part of the GeoTour (click).

  About this Location

This is a quick 2-stage multi cache

Using a=1, b=2, c=3 … z=26, assign a numerical value to the missing two words from the plaque on the rock at the posted coordinates. Add the value for the name (designated as “X”) to the value for the month (designated as “Y”) to get “Z” and use “Z” in the equation below to get the final cache coordinates.

"This site is dedicated to the memory of the family known as the (name) and to all other Black Islanders buried in unmarked graves across the Island.

Dedicated by the Highfield Cemetery Trust Inc and the Black Islanders Cooperative Ltd

(month) 2004"

N 46 17.(Z - 68) W 063 10.(Z + 173)
Checksum: N=31, W=21

This was once a private family cemetery for the Richardson family. A Black family all died around the same time — circa 1918 (most likely from Spanish Flu that swept across North America) — and the local Catholic church would not allow them to be buried as they were not Catholics. The Richardson family allowed them to be buried here, in their cemetery, at the time. Many Black Islanders were buried in unmarked graves across the Island(See also ACHH2: Pioneer Slave Cemetery (Lower Montague) GCAJVP4).

Atlantic Canada’s Hidden Histories (ACHH) GeoTour is a collaborative project between the City of Fredericton, National Trust for Canada, the Capital Region Association of Geocachers, the Association of Nova Scotia Geocaching, and Prince Edward Island.. 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.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Unatvat guvtu-uvtu va ynetr gerr

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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