Got back to the field where I found the early wrist watch and some LC's for a couple of hours in the cold this morning. Unfortunately, not much to show for my efforts of digging through very frozen ground except for part of a bent up antique fishing lure and a musket ball! I
did find a couple of brass horse tack rings and an unusually large piece of heavy brass with strange markings on it! 
The fishing lure is marked Croft&Sons Toronto, here is some of the company history.
WM. Croft & Sons of Toronto, Ontario were established in 1855.The company was originally located in Toronto at 53 Bay Street, and then moved to 61-63 Front Street. After the well-documented great Toronto fire of 1904, the Croft & Sons business was destroyed by the blaze. The next location for the company was 126-132 Queen Street East. Croft & Sons were manufacturers and importers of many goods as shown in their catalogs. They advertise on company letterheads "Archer Brand" needles and fishing tackle. Manufacturers and importers of fine fishing tackle, makers of flies.
At least I found the musket ball, I don't find many of those here in Canada!
Thanks for looking,
Dave
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I found a website that sells some of the older lures this company made during the 40's & 50's. I sent the moderator an email asking if he could date it and send me a pic of what it looked like when it was new, I have yet to hear anything back. 
I actually had to give up on digging a couple of decent targets, as the ground was just too frozen in spots. But as you said, "good prospects for next year". 
