Ramsay (Canada)
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Ramsay is the name of a legendary figure that possibly buried treasure in Long Point, Ontario.
According to the tale, Ramsay was a fur-trader who managed to evade the natives along the shore of Port Stanley,_Ontario. His boat loaded with gold, he buried it in a ridge at Long Point, planning to dig it up when the natives were no longer a problem.
It is presumed, under the tale, that Ramsay died before retrieving it, forgot all about his cache, or most likely forgot exactly where it was buried.
A deacon named John Troyer learnt of the legend, and reputely using the "black arts", acquired knowledge of its exact locale. Troyer invited a 11- or 12-year-old boy, Simpson McCall, to help him reclaim the gold. McCall's parents refused, fearing the Deacon.
Troyer and son went, leading to the following events, excerpted from the Niagara Falls Evening Review.
- They went to Long Point, arriving just enough before dark to locate the spot where the treasure was. Then they waited until exactly midnight, and then started a procession, Deacon Troyer holding the open Bible before him, and his son following with a lighted candle, with spades, picks, etc. They dug down, and presently the pick struck metal. They got the pick under the lid of the box and pried it up. And then, at that moment a black shape rose up and assumed the form of a black dog, growing bigger and bigger, and they dropped the Bible and candle and rushed for the canoe, and never had any curiousity to return to the spot.
This failed reclaiming was told by Troyer to McCall, and McCall to J. H. Coyne, who made it public in an address at an Ontario Historical Society meeting in Norfolk County. This meeting was reported a few days later in the Niagara Falls Evening Review, October 19, 1922.