Finally finished the back yard grand slam!

[DeepIron]

It took almost a month, and i also collected half a five gallon pail full of iron scrap to complete it, but i got the full canadian coin set out of my back yard.
The house site used to be an open field until 1980, so not much time for accumulation. The spread of years i found is pretty even over that time.
Now it has finally somewhat warmed up so time to move on to some better hunting grounds, i think my yard is tapped out. Time to try the new sand scoop out at the beach.

 

[John-Edmonton]

n/t

 

[Wandering Yoda]

Really nice DeepIron!! Those would look nice framed up and hung on a wall.

 

[DeepIron]

Hey John, I am on farm near Vegreville, Alberta land of the giant Ukrainian Easter Egg (Pysanka).

 

[John-Edmonton]

Cool! Been there. Hunted there. Got some common coinage. That was several years ago. Lots of old buildings out your way. I have heard stories of Ukrainians burying money in jars out there on their homesteads. What a great find that would be! We should get together for a hunt some time this year.

 

[DeepIron]

Yeah a hunt and/or river mining this summer would be great, also to put a face to the name.

I have also heard the legends of Ukrainian buried treasure. The only true confirmed story of a found hoard in the area was a large tin with $70,000 in bills. They found it when a new fence was being built. While digging in the new corner post they found the hoard and turned it in to the police, no one else came to claim it, so they got it. Then the finder started a massively sucsessful trucking company, wich he later sold for millions. Some people do not need a detector to find treasure, they are just drawn to it.

Early Ukrainian Canadians thanks to Russia did not trust the government or banks, then in Canada during the depression they were even more justified for their practices of stuffing thier "mattress" or burying it. There is no better teacher in geting shafted than getting starved out by Stalin followed by massive economic collapse. My Baba told me about the depression and how much fun it was (not), also how even if you had money, gold, or magic beans in the bank you couldn't get any of it back out.

Ukrainians are so tight with thier money i doubt there is much left in the ground though; they are credited with the invention copper wire cause they could strech a penny so far, lol.
But they are fast and loose with thier nails and fence staples my bucket of them to proves it.

I have been asking alot of questions lately to find old homesteads that have been completely wiped of the map, the old buildings are being bulldozed at an alarming rate.

 

[Syd BC]

DeepIron, have you tried one of the aerial photo companies. Some of them have an archive of old farm homestead photos. My brother purchased an old aerial photo of our farm in Saskatchewan and it has great detail. I have also heard a story of an older Ukrainian gentleman who buried a money cache on his farm. When he died the family searched for it by digging around the yard but never found it. I have a contact in the family and should be following up on this. A Calgary company selling old aerial photos: http://www.homesteadaerial.com/

I found a large silver cache for a farmer last summer, so they do exist.

Good Luck