Prince Edward Park Traditional Geocache
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A micro hidden at the Melfort Museum...also the location of Prince Edward Park. The Melfort & District Museum features a Pioneer Village as well as an extensive collection of vintage farm machinery, equipment and tools that were used in the development of the agriculture industry.
You do not need to enter the museum grounds to retrieve this cache. However we recommend checking it out!!
Melfort's present city site was surveyed by the Canadian National Railway (CNR) during July and August of 1902 by George G. Bemister of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Mr. Bemister was assisted by Ed Crawford and Minn Guinn. Mrs. Reginald Beatty, the first woman of European descent to settle in the area, was asked by Malcolm Hugh McLeod, general manager of CNR, to name the community. She consented and christened the community 'Melfort' in honour of her family estate and town by the same name in Argylshire, Scotland.
Melfort was officially incorporated as a village in 1903. The promised rail reached the community in 1904, facilitating steady population growth. According to a census taken July 21, 1906, Melfort at the time was home to 448 residents. By 1907, Melfort's population was of sufficient number to justify its official incorporation as a town, which occurred on July 1 of that year, and became Saskatchewan's 12th city on September 2nd, 1980.
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