Welcome to Atlantic Canada’s Hidden Histories Geotour!
This GeoTour is one of only 100 worldwide Geotours developed to Geocaching Headquarters standards and promoted by them.
As per the Geocaching HQ website: “Geotours are collections of geocaches that create self-guided, themed tours around historic sites, parks, cities, and more. Geotours are often sponsored by local tourism boards, historical associations, or national park services. Local experts pick out the best places to hide new geocaches. If you find 100 percent of the caches on the GeoTour at that time, you will earn a GeoTour souvenir for your profile, or perhaps even a geocoin or other prizes. Keep in mind that the exact number of caches on a GeoTour may increase or decrease over time.”
To learn more about this Geotour click here
Atlantic Canada’s Hidden Histories GeoTour aims to highlight various diverse and sometimes relatively unknown histories in Atlantic Canada. The first two phases of the Tour highlight Black History in Atlantic Canada. In Phase 1 there are six locations in New Brunswick, and eight locations in Nova Scotia. Each of these segments has their own geocoin, which will be awarded when you complete the passport for that segment. In Phase 2 there are nine locations in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and three locations in Prince Edward Island. There is another geocoin available for finding the nine Phase 2 geocaches in Nova Scotia which are located in the corridor running from Halifax Regional Municipality to Hantsport.
When you find a geocache, in addition to signing the log sheet, you must punch your passport with the included punch or find the answer to a question. Once you have a completed passport, you can submit it to receive your geocoin.
Obtain the passport for the ACHH Phase 1 Fredericton, New Brunswick segment here (English) and here (French) You will need to find 6 caches in the Greater Fredericton area.
Obtain the passport for the ACHH Phase 1 Nova Scotia segment here. You will need to find 8 geocaches in the area from Birchtown to Yarmouth.
Obtain the passport for the ACHH2 Phase 2 Nova Scotia segment here. You will need to find 9 geocaches in the area from Halifax Regional Municipality to Hantsport.
Atlantic Canada’s Hidden Histories GeoTour is a collaborative project between the City of Fredericton, National Trust for Canada, the Capital Region Association of Geocachers, and the Association of Nova Scotia Geocaching.
