Target - Place d'Orleans, Orleans, Ontario

Waymark Code: WMN7YK

Target Canada has announced all stores will close. It's time to waymark as many Target stores as possible. I enjoy creating commercial waymarks more than many waymarking enthusiasts. My third busiest waymarking category is Subway restaurants. However, I don't usually rush the creation of commercial ones with the exception of exotic locations.

Before 2013, this store in the Place d'Orleans shopping centre was operated by Zellers. Zellers went out of business and many of the Zellers stores across Canada were replaced by Target. Target was entering the Canadian market for the first time. When this shopping centre opened in 1983, there was a Woolco store here. Woolco stores were sold to Walmart Canada in 1994.

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N 45 28.75 W 075 30.88 110 Place d'Orléans Dr Ottawa, ON K1C 2L9 Canada Pharmacy Store Hours M-Fr : 8:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m. Sa : 8:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m. Su : 8:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. Pharmacist-Owner Mohamed Mohamed Aly Clinical Interests Pediatrics, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Fast, Fun, Friendly FaW ct I am a clever cook Interests Reading, Basketball, Soccer What about your Target Pharmacy being in your community are you most excited? I’m excited to deliver a personalized, total healthcare experience to every Target Guest in my community Language(s) Spoken English, Arabic Starbucks

Ottawa Hospital - Civic Campus - Ottawa, ON

The Ottawa Hospital was created in 1998 as a merger between the Civic Hospital, the General Hospital and Riverside Hospital. Back in the 1920s, the Civic Hospital was also created as a merger of older hospitals. The Spanish flu epidemic in 1918 convinced municipal authorities that a more modern hospital was needed. The main building of the Civic Hospital opened to patients in 1924.

The mother and baby areas of the Civic Hospital have stories of their own. During the Second World War while the Dutch royal family found sanctuary in Ottawa, Princess Margriet was born at the Civic in a ward given temporary status as official Netherlands territory. In 1982, a fundraising performance by Frank Sinatra and Rich Little was fundamental to the creation of the Rich Little Special Care Nursery. Decades later, my grandson spent a few of his first weeks in that same special care nursery.

45 23.565 075 43.355

Ottawa Hospital - General Campus - Ottawa, ON

Waymark Code: WMNECC

I was busy waymarking while transporting hospital visitors to my new grandson. Would it be possible to document my grandson's experiences through waymarking? Let's try.

Ottawa's General Hospital dates back to 1845. The hospital moved to this location on Smyth Road in 1980. The earlier location for the General Hospital was on Sussex Drive. That hospital would eventually become known as the Élisabeth Bruyère Hospital. In 1998, amalgamation occurred, creating The Ottawa Hospital. The General Campus is one component of The Ottawa Hospital.

The General Hospital offers many specialized services not available in all hospitals. Concerning neonatal care, for example, the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) is the only level 4 NICU in the region, providing the highest level of neonatal care. My grandson spent his first six weeks in the General Hospital.

501 Smyth Road, K1H 8L6

N 45° 24.04 W 075° 38.88

LEGO Civic Hospital - Ottawa, ON

Waymark Code: WMN7EW

While my brand new grandson was busy growing at his first residence, the General Campus of the Ottawa Hospital, I got in to a routine exploration of the area. Driving parents and/or grandmother to the hospital at least once each day, I was able to waymark away the time between delivering trips and returning trips. Grandson then transferred to the Civic Campus where I've been slow to start a new routine.

Grandson's room was on the fourth floor, not counting the main floor as floor one. However, his ward is located in the wing of the hospital not yet built for the 1924 campus represented by the LEGO construction.

Seeking examples of waymarking categories new to me, I found this hopeful entry for the LEGO sculpture category.

Co-ordinates are for the main entrance to the Civic Hospital. Located across from the Central Experimental Farm, northeast of the intersection Parkdale and Carling, the main building was open to patients late in 1924. Ninety years later, Doctor Lucie Filteau has created a LEGO representation of that building. Her LEGO construction project was an excuse to spend more time with her two young sons.

45 23.56 075 43.35

CFS Carp Almonte Detachment

Waymark Code: WMN65Z

N 45° 15.71 W 076° 9.138

In 1962 at the height of the Cold War, Canadian Forces Station Carp became operational. Remote radio receiving facilities were created to support CFS Carp. One of these facilities was an antennae yard established here, east of Almonte. All of CFS Carp operations, including the Almonte detachment were abandoned by 1994. The Nature Conservancy of Canada soon took over maintenance of the land for environmental protection. Eventually, the land would be included in the Ontario Parks system as Burnt Lands Provincial Park.

This abandoned concrete building (measuring 25.8 metres square) from the Cold War period has survived all the changes. The building is near the centre of the closed military facility.

According to the Ontario Parks Burnt Lands Interim Management Statement (2001), communications towers erected in 1960 have since been removed from the property (concrete base plates remain). A bunker, previously used to contain a backup generator and batteries for the communications towers, remains on the property.

M&O Railway: milepost 81

The M&O subdivision of the Canadian Pacific Railway began as the Montreal & Ottawa Railway in 1898. By the time the rails were removed in 1986, the railbed was being used by VIA Rail passenger service. The property still belongs to VIA. Today, that portion of the former railbed in Prescott and Russell county is known as the Prescott and Russell Recreational Trail. That portion of the trail which resides in the city of Ottawa, where these waymarks can be visited, has been known as the Prescott Russell Trail Link.

These two culverts date from a period with many building projects along this railway. Most of the culverts on the M&O date from this period. Interestingly, the 1914 culvert is in better shape than the 1924 culvert. The location for the 1914 culvert would have been known by railroaders as milepost 81.7, the 1924 culvert as milepost 82.2. Therefore, these culverts are respectively 81.7 and 82.2 miles from the M&O connection with the Vaudreuil subdivision at the junction in Dorion near Montreal.

When I return to these culverts in better light, I will obtain better photographs for waymarking in the Dated Architectural Structures Multifarious category.

N 45° 24.96 W 075° 34.359
N 45° 24.878 W 075° 34.893

Canadian benchmark: 6530316

Waymark Code: WMN5JX

Station Report
Site Identification
Name Province NTS map sheet Unique Number Provincial Identifier NCC 316 Ontario 031G05 6530316 019680316
Horizontal Data
Values should be checked with the provincial agency before use.
Geographic
Latitude Longitude Horizontal Datum Order Method Published Year 45° 24' 16.7079" 75° 31' 37.5901" NAD83 Consult agency (unique condition) Multiple methods 90-01-01 UTM Zone Easting (metres) Northing (metres) Scale 18 458749.259 5028037.614 .99962 Vertical Data Vertical Datum Elevation (m) Order Method Gravity (mGal) Published Year CGVD2013 New 76.317 First order Differential 980616.7 ± .8 2013 CGVD28 76.626 First order Differential 980616.7 ± .8 1967
Station Marker
Marker Type Inspected in Established by Status Comments Brass/bronze tablet or cap 1965 National capital commission Good None
Location Ottawa For descriptions contact survey section, n.c.c.

The station report above is taken from the Canadian Spatial Reference System (CSRS) on-line database maintained by Natural Resources Canada.

When it comes to waymarking, I would rather be seeking benchmarks than any other objects. Snow cover was minimal. I was headed out on Dolman Ridge for one more geocache. I put the aforementioned co-ordinates in my GPSr.

I was surprised to encounter only the post, especially because the station report describes a tablet or cap. The published co-ordinates were a perfect match. There was no snow cover. Perhaps fifty years of grass, moss and soil have covered over the disk.

The round trip from the open end of Dolman Ridge Road was 4 kilometres.

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