Colborne Lodge Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 4/1/2006
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Large green box. Please take note of signs for closed areas and don't climb fences or guardrails. You can find a path which will take you close by. Poison ivy and thorny canes in the area. You might want to wear long pants and have leather gloves.


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Colborne Lodge

This rare Regency picturesque cottage is a graceful monument to John and Jemima Howard, the couple who founded High Park. John Howard, one of Toronto’s first architects as well as a City Engineer and Surveyor, built Colborne Lodge in 1837 which still contains many original furnishings, artifacts, and some of his own watercolours depicting images of early Toronto. Colborne Lodge’s extensive ornamental and kitchen gardens are now being restored. Tour the Lodge or come and enjoy the Harvest Festival, Christmas celebrations or celebrate Doors Open Toronto with the museum’s friendly and knowledgeable staff.


John Howard Tomb

John Howard designed this tomb in High Park for his wife and himself in 1874-75. (Jemima Howard died in 1877 and John passed away in 1890). Like Colborne Lodge, this was a romantic structure, but it represented a heavy Victorian romanticism in contrast to the lighter version articulated in his Regency lodge.

John Howard married Jemima Frances Meikle in 1827. Jemima (1802-77) sometimes prepared copies of specifications in John's architectural and engineering practice. She also was an amateur watercolourist, but did not document the city's life, focusing instead on romantic images. The Howards' relationship seems to have been incomplete: John engaged in a long-term clandestine relationship with another woman, Mary Williams, with whom he had three children, whereas he and Jemima had none. Yet during Jemima's final illness - with cancer - John did his utmost to find a cure and to care for her, and seems to have grieved her loss with deep sincerity.

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A children's garden and small zoo are nearby.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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