Whitebeard said:
Hi! Great Grand-dad cache was in Qc. in the vecinity of Perkins Mills wich is now called Val-des-Monts, it is approx. 15 miles North-East of Ottawa as the crow flies.
I was a thec. in surveying when I retired but studied and worked in cartography before that.
Now that I have time on my hands I can go and live my passions more intensly, that is fishing, canoeing, trecking, rock wood carving and treasure hunting wich I have not done enough of so far. I do not hunt for specific items such as gold or military memorabilia etc. it is mostly the thrill of finding things from the past and the vibes I get from making a find, the way I see it is that every object has a story ex: who did it belong to, what was this person's story, could it have gone through the hands of an ancester of mine? shure I will get a much better thrill finding a coin than finding a square nail but I am not one to seek fortune I'l gladly take it if I find it and probably get a bigger thrill out of it but there is a saying in my family that goes like this "don't eat the whole pie today if you want the pleasure of eating some more tomorow" some would say eat it all today and make another one tomorow but from my point of view the more you eat the less the pleasure.
I have found a few things through the years but have not being an avid hunter fault of time and other passions such as canoeing and wilderness camping but there is an item I am particularly happy about is a sword dating back from the 1700's (french regime) and I should be posting some pictures and info I found on it in the coming days, you can look for it in the "Trading Post" section in a week or so.
If I could start my life again with my feelings of today I would probably study archeology.
Have a nice evening Tuberale and thanks for your post.
With a cartography background, you should do quite well on TNet. Too few people actually know map reading here, but need to know more.
Pie. Mmmmm. I'd like 2 now, please.<G> I can't have them, but I'd still like them.
A French sword?!? I'll have to share my family secret. My ancestor invaded Canada. Actually captured a fort there, after he "let" himself be captured, then drank the garrison under the table. Apparently the last man stumbling. Was once the richest man in America, but captured by the British while transporting guns from France while on the Atlantic, and locked away in England for 8 years until he went bankrupt. Ended up dying a pauper in Philadelphia, buried in an unmarked grave. Ira Allen.
