Happy Thanksgiving Everybody! 
For the past 2 days, I've spent a total of 8 hours hunting a very unassuming park in the east end of Toronto. This park has an interesting history to it, as explained to me by a local resident who stopped to ask me "are you finding anything interesting?" He told me that when he moved here in the mid 1950's that this park was completely covered with poplar trees. He said, "this used to be the firebreak for the DEW station behind you"
(See building in third picture). I had grown up in this area and I had always known this building as being a weather station! 
He went on to say that, "one day the city came and cut all the trees down to create this park back in the early 1960's."
'The DEW line stations across Canada were designed to detect attacks by the USSR across the polar cap. Typically consisting of Doppler radars and communications antennas (tropospheric scatter antennas). In December 1954, construction began on the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, an integrated chain of 63 radar and communication centers stretching 3000 miles from Western Alaska across the Canadian Arctic to Greenland. This predominantly American defense project, designed to detect Russian bomber incursions into North American airspace, was the largest technological undertaking that Canadian had yet witnessed. The DEW Line was only one in a series of defense projects that Canada and the United States had jointly embarked upon since the Second World War.'
The first interesting piece I found was a 'gold' ring. When the ring came out of the ground, it looked like real gold. However, after washing it gently in a puddle I could see that it wasn't gold, but gold plate. When I got it home and cleaned it further, I noticed it had an inscription inside it and a mintmark of 750! I guess somebody bought this ring thinking it was real, had it inscribed, then it was lost. My second decent find was the 1962 Can. Silver Quarter, unfortunately this was my only silver to be found in this park! 
I also found a '50, '62 & '63 Can. Penny, a '44 & '53 US Wheat Penny and a 1951 US Nickel. My other finds were three dog tags, one lead sword fighter, a 'Made in England' Firebird key tag, a small brass buckle and $3.80 in change!
Thanks very much for looking and have a great Thanksgiving . . . here have a cheese ball!
Dave
For the past 2 days, I've spent a total of 8 hours hunting a very unassuming park in the east end of Toronto. This park has an interesting history to it, as explained to me by a local resident who stopped to ask me "are you finding anything interesting?" He told me that when he moved here in the mid 1950's that this park was completely covered with poplar trees. He said, "this used to be the firebreak for the DEW station behind you"
(See building in third picture). I had grown up in this area and I had always known this building as being a weather station! He went on to say that, "one day the city came and cut all the trees down to create this park back in the early 1960's." 'The DEW line stations across Canada were designed to detect attacks by the USSR across the polar cap. Typically consisting of Doppler radars and communications antennas (tropospheric scatter antennas). In December 1954, construction began on the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, an integrated chain of 63 radar and communication centers stretching 3000 miles from Western Alaska across the Canadian Arctic to Greenland. This predominantly American defense project, designed to detect Russian bomber incursions into North American airspace, was the largest technological undertaking that Canadian had yet witnessed. The DEW Line was only one in a series of defense projects that Canada and the United States had jointly embarked upon since the Second World War.'
The first interesting piece I found was a 'gold' ring. When the ring came out of the ground, it looked like real gold. However, after washing it gently in a puddle I could see that it wasn't gold, but gold plate. When I got it home and cleaned it further, I noticed it had an inscription inside it and a mintmark of 750!
I guess somebody bought this ring thinking it was real, had it inscribed, then it was lost. My second decent find was the 1962 Can. Silver Quarter, unfortunately this was my only silver to be found in this park! I also found a '50, '62 & '63 Can. Penny, a '44 & '53 US Wheat Penny and a 1951 US Nickel. My other finds were three dog tags, one lead sword fighter, a 'Made in England' Firebird key tag, a small brass buckle and $3.80 in change!
Thanks very much for looking and have a great Thanksgiving . . . here have a cheese ball!
Dave
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Somebody give me another drink quick . . . I'm starting to sober up! 
