Central Memorial Park (Calgary)
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Central Memorial Park is a park located in central Calgary's Beltline district. Sometimes referred to as "Central Park" or as Memorial Park, the area is home to the Memorial Park Library, an equestrian statue of R.L. Boyle, and a cenotaph. The former Colonel Belcher veterans hospital was located across the street, now the site of the Sheldon M. Chumir Centre.
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[edit] Description
The park occupies one entire city block between 11th and 12th Avenues SW, bounded by 4th and 5th Streets. Totalling 4.68 acres, the park was designed in 1889 and landscaped in Victorian style.
[edit] Monuments
The statue of R.L. Boyle is unusual in that his name is not inscribed on the monument. Rather than memorializing him personally, the statue is intended as a tribute to all Albertans who fought in the Second Boer War, and the dates 1899-1902 are inscribed on the pedestal.
There is also a statue outside the Memorial Park branch of the Calgary Public Library at the park's eastern end of a First World War era soldier, erected by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire after the war.
[edit] Activities
Annual civic wreath layings commemorating Remembrance Day occur on November 11th. ANZAC Day is also commemorated annually each April at the cenotaph.
[edit] References
- accessible-travel-attractions website
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- Memorial Park Library
