Canadian Geopub Quiz

January 3, 2008

What is the most extreme easterly community in Canada? Cape Spear? or the maybe the community just before

Bonus point if you know the name of the most easterly Geocache in Canada ........Extreme East - Great cache. Saw lots of whales but don't know what kind they were..... any ideas?

Second Bonus point if you know who placed it. VO2WW

January 3, 2008

Cape Spear is not a community,

you got the rest correct though.

January 3, 2008

The majestic and graceful Humpback is the most commonly sighted whale at Cape Spear. Their acrobatic displays always captivate and excite those privileged to catch a view of them. Visitors are also likely to see Minke and Fin whales. During the summer of 2002, Orcas were spotted at least four times with one pod having a minimum of 15 individuals! White-sided dolphins, Beaked dolphins, Porpoises, Harbour seals and Otters have all been seen from the most easterly point in Canada as well.

January 3, 2008

St. John's Newfoundland

Edited January 3, 2008 by geezer55

January 4, 2008

Closer to Cape Spear

January 4, 2008

Blackhead, Newfoundland. Looked in different atlas, hopefully my eyes read it correctly.

January 4, 2008

You got it, quaint little village, popular with birdwatchers, nice tiny museum in either an old school house or a church

January 7, 2008

Alberta has numerous ghost towns. Some of these ghost towns still have human occupation. Here's the question: What ghost town is named after Walter R. Baker and how did this town gets its name?

1.4k · January 7, 2008

Alberta has numerous ghost towns. Some of these ghost towns still have human occupation. Here's the question: What ghost town is named after Walter R. Baker and how did this town gets its name?

Bakersville Alberta - It was named after Walter R. Baker :rolleyes:

January 7, 2008

I'm bored so I will answer.

Retlaw, Alberta named after Walter R. Baker and CPR Official

Why Retlaw, cuz its Walter spelled backwards.

http://www.ghosttowns.com/canada/alberta/retlaw.html

Binrat

January 7, 2008

On to you Binrat.

January 8, 2008

Ok, we all know that the BEST GPS out there is made by Garmin, so.....

How did Garmin get its name?

Binrat

January 8, 2008

Ok, we all know that the BEST GPS out there is made by Garmin, so.....

How did Garmin get its name?

Binrat

According to this link, the company was founded by Gary Burrell and Dr. Min Kao. I'm going to guess it's a composite of their first names.

January 9, 2008

We have a winner, take it away moop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garmin

Binrat

January 9, 2008

Thanks, Binrat. It's just as well they didn't use their last names. Burka GPSMap 60C just doesn't have the same ring to it. :anicute:

One of the earliest forms of bicycle had a large front wheel and a small rear wheel. What is the value of its popular name in today's British currency?

Edited January 9, 2008 by moop

January 9, 2008

Given this answer:

Retlaw, Alberta named after Walter R. Baker and CPR Official

Why Retlaw, cuz its Walter spelled backwards.

I was going to guess the answer to this question:

How did Garmin get its name?

was something along the lines of 'Nimrag'! :anicute:

January 9, 2008

Thanks, Binrat. It's just as well they didn't use their last names. Burka GPSMap 60C just doesn't have the same ring to it.

One of the earliest forms of bicycle had a large front wheel and a small rear wheel. What is the value of its popular name in today's British currency?

Penny (farthing)

January 9, 2008

One of the earliest forms of bicycle had a large front wheel and a small rear wheel. What is the value of its popular name in today's British currency?

Penny (farthing)

You didn't think it would be that easy did you? :anicute: The operative word in the question is "today's".

January 9, 2008

Met a guy in Nova Scotia this past summer riding a Penny Farthing, in a chat with a tourist group he mentioned that the Farthing today was worth a Penny in todays currency, or at least that was what I understood

January 9, 2008

Thanks, Binrat. It's just as well they didn't use their last names. Burka GPSMap 60C just doesn't have the same ring to it.

One of the earliest forms of bicycle had a large front wheel and a small rear wheel. What is the value of its popular name in today's British currency?

Would it be called a pence farthing?

January 9, 2008

OK. :anicute: Here's another hint: 1971

January 9, 2008

I think that after 1971 the farthing had no value so today it would be worthless.

The smallest coin today would be the 1p or 1 pee or 1 penny which was what

the chap on the Penny Farthing bike meant I think, memory not the best anymore.

January 10, 2008

Oh dear. Maybe there aren't as many older ex-pats around here as I thought.

15th February 1971 was Decimalisation Day in Britain. While the pound remained the basic unit of currency, it was now divided into 100 pence. Previously it was divided into 20 shillings and shillings were divided into 12 pennies. A farthing (which ceased to be legal tender on 31st December 1960) was worth 1/4 of a penny.

Now, who's the fastest math wiz?

January 10, 2008

Hmmm. Mebbe this question isn't in the spirit of this game. :grin: The answer is 0.52083p. That is ((100/20)/12)*(1+0.25)

Let's try this one:

Who's name defaces Mazinaw Rock in Ontario's Bon Echo Provincial Park?

January 11, 2008

Who's name defaces Mazinaw Rock in Ontario's Bon Echo Provincial Park?

I refuse to answer on the ground I might incriminate myself...

TOMTEC

January 11, 2008

Who's name defaces Mazinaw Rock in Ontario's Bon Echo Provincial Park?

I refuse to answer on the ground I might incriminate myself...

TOMTEC

I didn't know you were that old, TOMTEC! (It was done in 1919)

January 11, 2008

Tom Thompson

January 11, 2008

Walt Whitman

Here's a question about stone carvings and rock paintings. Are the stone carvings and rock paintings that we admire and value for their history only the graffiti of an earlier society? If so, the graffiti of today may be of historic value in hundreds of years.

January 11, 2008

Walt Whitman

Here's a question about stone carvings and rock paintings. Are the stone carvings and rock paintings that we admire and value for their history only the graffiti of an earlier society? If so, the graffiti of today may be of historic value in hundreds of years.

You are correct, sir! Interesting point you make. The concern I was going to voice was how many pictographs were destroyed in carving the Walt Whitman memorial.

Here's your hammer and chisel. Now carve your question.

January 11, 2008

Who's name defaces Mazinaw Rock in Ontario's Bon Echo Provincial Park?

I refuse to answer on the ground I might incriminate myself...

I didn't know you were that old, TOMTEC! (It was done in 1919)

I have this habit of signing my name whenever I visit a place, (some have spotted me doing it while caching...) so if you know where to look, yeah, you'll find my name there... just not in 1919, only around 80 years later.

TOMTEC

January 12, 2008

Name this old mode of transportation which was caused by high gas prices.

Horse plus car equals .....................

January 12, 2008

I have this habit of signing my name whenever I visit a place, (some have spotted me doing it while caching...) so if you know where to look, yeah, you'll find my name there... just not in 1919, only around 80 years later.

TOMTEC

Soo......this time of year are you writing it in the snow? hehe

I have seen the "TOMTEC was here" sign a couple times......though to prevent further incrimination, I won't mention where!!

January 12, 2008

Name this old mode of transportation which was caused by high gas prices.

Horse plus car equals .....................

Would that have been the "Bennett Buggy" - named after the Prime Minister of Canada at the time ?

January 12, 2008

That's correct, on to you Bullfrog Eh-Team.

January 13, 2008

A geography question, that alludes to an operation that required precise surveying skills, perhaps similar to those used by geocachers (at least those of the bushwhacking genre).

"What historic device was used to move thousands of Algonquin pine logs from one major drainage basin, up and over the 'height of land' and into the upper reaches of the Gull River drainage basin, to start them on a two year floating journey to the sawmills at the shores of Lake Ontario."

1.6k · January 13, 2008

A steam donkey and skid roads?

January 13, 2008

A steam donkey and skid roads?

Only partially correct - 'Steam' was involved; but, no skid roads. The 'operation' was somewhat unique and was named after the lumber company that devised it. Anyone familiar with the logging operations of Algonquin Park would be well aware of it. Logs were moved out of Trading Bay of the 'Lake of Bays' into Raven Lake in the Algonquin Highlands.

January 13, 2008

The item in question is call an........Alligator!

West & Peachey invented the Alligator; a steam powered amphibious warping tug. Alligators were scow-shaped, shallow draft boats, fitted with side mounted paddle wheels, powered by a 20 horsepower steam engine and provided with a cable winch and large anchor. By using the winch Alligators could pull themselves over land, around portages and up as much as a 20 degree incline at the rate of 1 to 2 1/2 miles per day. And they could haul a boom of some 60,000 logs across water against all but the strongest winds. They were heavily but simply built, making rebuilding and repair easy. A perfect and elegant answer to the logging industry's problem with moving log booms across still lakes and slow-flowing rivers.

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/04/s/arti...gator/index.cfm

Binrat

January 14, 2008

Close - Binrat!

Certainly the 'alligators' were used extensively throughout the Algonquin region to move logs; but, locally, across a variety of lakes. And, they were capable of winching themselves overland from one lake to another work site. The alligators were an awesome invention; but were a mobile apparatus.

I'm looking for a stationary, much larger, undertaking that was specifically designed to move logs from 'Trading Bay' in one of the three major drainage basins of the Algonquin Highlands into 'Raven Lake' of a second of the three major drainage basins. This was a massive undertaking that demonstrated the magnitude of the lumbering influence on the Algonquin forests.

It is named after one of the major lumber barons of bygone times.

1.4k · January 14, 2008

log chutes

January 14, 2008

Sorry Juicepig - The 'log chutes' were reasonably common, timbered structures used to bypass obstacles (rapids, etc.) along the rivers.

The structure we're looking for was somewhat 'unique', and was built to move logs over the 'height of land', into another distinct drainage basin. I don't believe it was replicated at any other site, at least in Ontario ( I may be wrong in this assumption!).

(If my geography is correct, I believe some of the Algonquin Logs that travelled this alternate man-made routing, might otherwise have errantly strayed onto Alcona Beach! Are there any 'dead-heads' left in that region ?)

January 15, 2008

It this is correct I would like Landsharkz to offer up the next question.

Gilmour Tramway?

If this is correct I need more info as I found very little info on it.

Binrat

January 15, 2008

It this is correct I would like Landsharkz to offer up the next question.

Gilmour Tramway?

If this is correct I need more info as I found very little info on it.

Binrat

The Gilmour Tramway it is!

Designed to move Algonquin pine out of the Muskoka, Black River drainage basin, and into the Trent, Gull River drainage Basin, for a more efficient route to the Gilmour lumber mills at Trenton.

Imagine, two 450 horsepower steam engines were used to initially lift logs (as much as 1.5 metres in diameter) as well to pump 20.000 gallons of water per hour 12 metres in elevation to the top of the initial jackladder. The logs then floated 'down' an almost level, timbered, 'slide' for 945 metres to a further set of eight jackladders, each approximately 100 metres in length. The set of eight jackladders were powered by a 400 horsepower water turbine using water from Raven Lake, and raised the logs another 27 metres elevation to the upper dams.

In all, the tramway consisted of 822 metres of jackladder and 969 metres of slide - a total length of 1.8 kilometres. It was desgned to carry as many as 10,000 logs per day.

500 men built the tramway in one year (1893/94) at a cost of about about $200,000.

Read more about this amazing lumbering feat in "When Giants Fall" - by Gary Long, and Randy Whiteman.

Raise your glasses my fellow geocachers to "David Gilmour: Bushwhacker cum laude" - and - on to the next pub question -

January 15, 2008

Landsharkz will come up with a question shortly.

The last one was too much fun and a devil to unearth.

http://www.foxmeadowbooks.com/tramwaybook.html

Only 2 pictures here but wow a very impressive undertaking.

Binrat

Edited January 15, 2008 by Binrat

1.6k · January 15, 2008

Binrat has spoken, therefore it must be. We'll come up with something shortly.

1.6k · January 16, 2008

OK... here you go.

Mrs Landsharkz, who has forgotten her GPS and is therefore using a banana, is Waymarking the location of this old man-made stone structure in the woods. It is located on a trail in Goldstream Provincial Park... not too far from where we live. What is it?

January 16, 2008

Ouch!

1.6k · January 16, 2008

Binrat has spoken, therefore it must be. We'll come up with something shortly.

Sorry Binrat... didn't mean to make an ouch...

Last post should have had a bunch of smileys and winkies.

Edited January 16, 2008 by Landsharkz

January 16, 2008

The Bullfrog Eh-Team recently purchased a 35 acre tract of what we presumed had been relatively un-used boreal forest. However, we were later able to trace an old, but relatively straight trail through the area. The forest to one side of the trail now has a slightly different forest diversity than the other, so we presumed one side may have been 'selectively' cleared of one species or another many years ago. Along this trail we found 'man-built' piles of random sized rocks of similar size and height as those in your picture; at regular intervals and always on the same side of the trail.

I have no idea whether the rock piles earned a specific name or not; but we presume they may have been of rocks that had either impeded the traffic along the trail, or impeded animals (perhaps grazing cows?) in the historically 'cleared' side of our forest ?? We know there was a small, operable farm nearby, in the 1880 to 1920 era. Interestingly, there is no remnant evidence of any associated fencing.

Perhaps your rock pile query, will assist us to learn more about our 'piles'. Did your 'piles' ward off evil spirits ?

January 16, 2008

OK... here you go.

Mrs Landsharkz, who has forgotten her GPS and is therefore using a banana, is Waymarking the location of this old man-made stone structure in the woods. It is located on a trail in Goldstream Provincial Park... not too far from where we live. What is it?

Is it a milestone?

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