I've hit a couple of sites over the past two days totaling about 7 hours of hunting. The first site I hit was on Friday, it was a c1850 field-stone farmhouse. Unfortunately, I feel this site has had the soil re-topped sometime in the past 15 - 20 years, as targets were sparse. However, I did find the brass horse bell and the 1912 style FORD Model T hubcap with the border around the script on the face at this site.
The site I hit this morning is the site of a c1860 brick farmhouse. I've been to this site a number of times, primarily working the western field, today I hit the front half of the eastern field. It was at this site last fall where I found my first baggage tag along with an early wristwatch and a number of LC's. My first 'keeper' find was the GTR baggage tag; this was followed by the 19thc Canada Militia button. 
I'm hoping to get back to detect the rest of this field again tomorrow morning. The Canadian Militia / North West Mounted Police 1866 - 1893
The often-inadequate performance of the Canadian militia during the Fenian raids of 1866-1870 clearly demonstrated a need for better training at all levels. The British Army had long been the source of qualified instructors; but the British regiments sailed for home in 1870, leaving Canadians to their own resources. In 1883, to replace the personnel and expertise lost through the British departure, approval was granted for the creation of a small Canadian regular force of cavalry, artillery, and infantry. On 21 December 1883, Lieutenant-Colonel J.F. Turnbull was authorized to raise and command A Troop, Cavalry School Corps and School of Cavalry. During the following year, recruiting brought A Troop to its established strength of three officers, forty men, and a number of horses. However, proper saddlery, valises, and carbines were not provided, and these items had to be borrowed from A Battery of the regular artillery and from the Queen's Own Canadian Hussars, a militia unit in Quebec City. Active service came quickly for the Cavalry School Corps. On the outbreak of the Northwest Rebellion in April 1885, A Troop was joined by the Winnipeg Troop of Cavalry to form a mounted unit of General Middleton's North West Field Force. When the Rebellion had been crushed, the Cavalry School Corps resumed its normal peacetime task of training the volunteer militia cavalry.
The Grand Trunk Railway in Ontario 1852 - 1923
The company was incorporated on November 10, 1852, as the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada to build a railway line between Montreal and Toronto. The Grand Trunk Railway was a railway system that operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, and in the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The railway was operated from headquarters in Montreal, Quebec; however, corporate headquarters were in London, England. The Grand Trunk, its subsidiaries, and the Canadian Government Railways, were precursors of today's Canadian National Railways. GTR's main line ran from Portland, Maine, to Montreal, and then from Montreal to Sarnia, Ontario, where it joined its western subsidiary.
Thanks for looking,
Dave
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