Canada-Montreal Leaf

I maintain records on my trackables. They have the goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers. That is a target rate of five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days. The average drop rate of my trackables in the US is 124 days, in Europe it is 71 days. As of 3-May-24 this trackable had survived for 1.5 years and had been moved by 8 cachers, for an average drop every 69 days, or 5.3 drops per year. Please keep it moving, then drop it in a safe place!

No permission is needed to leave the U.S. While in the U.S., please drop it at an event, in a Premium Member only OR a rural cache near a busy trail or road. Do not place it in an urban, non-premium cache. Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean and dry, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items. Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.

This wooden maple leaf recalls the maple leaf on the national flag of Canada.  Most people people living in the United States couldn’t name many cities in Canada, unless they live in the northern tier of states or Alaska.  This series of “Canada” travel bugs brings attention to the largest metropolitan areas in that country. 

Montreal is a city in the Canadian province of Quebec.   It is the largest city in the province, the second-largest in Canada.  Originally called Ville-Marie, or City of Mary, it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill located in the heart of the city.  The city is located on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard.  As of 2011, Montreal's metropolitan area had a population of 3,824,221.  French is the city's official language and is also the language spoken at home by 57% of the population in the city of Montreal proper, followed by English at 19% and 20% other.  Montreal is the second largest primarily French-speaking city in the world, after Paris.