r/GreatCanadianTreasure

Where do you think the final bonus prize for the Great Canadian Treasure Hunt will be?

Prince Edward Island?

Alberta?

Northwest Territories?

Another one in Ontario?

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My best guess is the * is a ❄️ Maybe a warning of some kind?

Are they all off limits?

I know, it's me again about Sudbury. Tonight I was thinking about the line "circles lead where none begun"; a coin is a circle, but a circle is also a zero and Sudbury is known as Ground Zero. Apparently the phrase "Ground Zero" is used in mining and industry to signify Sudbury as very important. But even it explain the circles line, it still doesn't explain or hint where the box could be, unless it's the Basin itself or around it.

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Anyone else experiencing this? I get excited every month when the bonus prizes drop and we get new material to review, but then I start to lose it as the days go on and nothing gets found. And now this month is the last of the bonus prizes, summer is almost over, and the weather will start to change soon...

Went to Val D'or today to check out my spot but didn't find anything (and couldn't search the full area). Thought I'd share my solve to help anyone around there looking for the bonus prize as I don't plan on going back.

And if this post helps you find the treasure, and you're feeling generous, I wouldn't mind a gold coin or two!

Here's my solve:

Red Herring:

• Many were quick to notice that the 810th, 419th and 227th words in the english article are identical: “Lamaque”, the name of a mine in Val D’or.
• However, “Lamaque” is only the 275th word in the french article. That's because it's a red herring.

Correct Answer:

• To solve the puzzle, you should not consider the english and french clues as independent / mirrored, but as complimentary.
• By subtracting the three english numbers from their respective french numbers, a new set of three numbers is given:

	1045	420	275
-	810	419	227
=	235	1	48

• These three numbers can be arranged to give a decimal degree latitude 48.1235 which crosses right through Val D’or.
• However, without a longitude, this information is incomplete. That’s where the videos come in.
• The videos do not have a morse code leaf, that's because the clue is in the descriptions of the videos, not the videos themselves.
• Just as with the numbers in the articles, by subtracting the gold spot price date in the english video's legal disclaimer from the one in the french youtube video, you get 111 days.
• 111 is the highway that begins in Val D’or, aka Chemin Sullivan.
• The implied location of the treasure is at latitude 48.1235 along highway 111.
• This is right in Sullivan in/next to Val d'Or

There is a large piece of crown land right there worth searching:

The yellow band is the 48.1235 latitude

Plus many pictures in the videos are of Sullivan, and the articles mention Sullivan frequently

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Any thoughts on this regional prize? I will be out looking for one day soon. It's not much time. I have a couple of ideas but nothing concrete. Anyone else have ideas? I haven't seen much lately about the search in Saskatchewan.

Check the email and the coin:

”Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently — they're not fond of rules... and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change things... they push the human race forward. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

Does the main poem hint at this? If you’ve run out of things to try to wrap your mind around. Any thoughts?

Stanza 1 - Dawson City, Yukon
crowned, veins
Stanza 2 - Golden Triangle
glaciers, peaks mislead
Stanza 3 - Britannia, BC
copper
Stanza 4 - Alberta…?? Maybe
Phoenix, no ember now ignites the track (coal mine)
Stanza 5 - Grand Prize
giant coin (lake)
Stanza 6 - Manitoba
Flinty’s Claim
Stanza 7 - Quebec
Shield bends
Stanza 8 - Nova Scotia
Iron sings, truth not loud, forged to be (lithium)
Stanza 9 - Newfoundland
shore, message dulled by passing time, now disappears
Stanza 10 - New Brunswick
Bathurst, zinc
Stanza 11 - Toronto, Ontario
Bay Street
Stanza 12 - Saskatchewan
Tall grass, buried speaks what no one knows
Stanza 13 - Cobalt, Ontario
Not marked by gold, but core alone (silver), a sliver rests in overgrown

Thoughts??

J.J SULLIVAN PREMIER MINEUR QUI A DÉCOUVERT DE L'OR AU LAC DE MONTIGNY.

MINE SULLIVAN. SI JE POUVAIS C'EST DANS CE COIN DU LAC QUE JE CHERCHERAIS.

Feels like a lot of the bonus clue articles reference other locations that received a bonus prize and Sudbury is mentioned in quite a few of the articles. In fact the Bathurst articles quote is quite literally "...from Yukon to Sudbury..." which would be the same order as the prizes listed from 1-12.

Sudbury, Timmins and Great Slave Lake seem like the big 3 mining areas that did not receive a prize so I figure its one of these places. Flin Flon too though considering the newest one Manitoba I figure they arent going there twice in a row.

Pity the person who has this phone number