Having had to archive our
"Up the Old Mumford Road" cache we needed to reuse the ammo box
cache container (which still has the "Mumford Road" name on the
outside so don't get confused). This is hidden near a spot where
people often park to start their ATV or Snowmobile ride - we hid it
on the way back from FTFing
"A Streetcar named...?" so it might be a good one to take in
when you are seeking that cache as well. It is actually at the
junction of the old Burleigh Road and the old Kennaway Road but we
already have a cache named
"Up the Old Kennaway Road" so...
The following is "Report and diary of Burleigh Road survey /
performed by James W. Fitzgerald P.L.S." and is taken from
Murray, Florence B. "Muskoka and Haliburton 1915-1875: a collection
of documents." Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1963. Spragge,
George W. "Colonization Roads in Cananda West, 1850-1867." Ontario
History. Vol. XLIX, no. 1, 1957 located in the Trent University
Archives.
"In
1852, William Lyon Mackenzie introduced to the Legislative Assembly
a resolution asking for a survey of the Huron-Ottawa Territory. His
intent was to increase settlement within the uninhabited region of
Canada West, to encourage immigration from Europe, and discourage
emigration from the province. This resolution, along with similar
recommendations, led to the Colonization Roads policy, and
ultimately to the passing of the Public Land Act in 1853 by the
Legislature. This Act allowed the government "to appropriate as
free grants any public land in the province to actual settlers,
upon or in the vicinity of any public roads in any new settlements
which shall or may be opened through the Lands of the Crown." The
policy and the Act led to surveys for many new roads in the
northern portion of Canada West, including the Burleigh Road in
1860-1861 by James W. Fitzgerald. The original survey indicated
that the road was to extend north from Burleigh rapids through the
Townships of Burleigh, Anstruther, Chandos, Cardiff, Monmouth, and
Dudley and end where it intersected the Peterson Road. By 1862, 23
miles of the proposed road had been constructed, running north from
Burleigh Bridge. With the survey and proposed construction of the
Monck Road, it was decided not to extend the Burleigh Road as far
north as the Peterson Road, but only to the Monck Road, which
resulted in a total distance of 43 miles for the Burleigh Road. Due
to the poor quality of the Burleigh Road, settlement of the
surrounding townships was extremely slow and it never achieved the
importance of some of the other Colonization Roads. The Burleigh
Road no longer exists today." (this last sentence obviously
not totally accurate 
)