Central Memorial Park

at 1221 2 St SW, Calgary , T2R 1N8 Canada

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Central Memorial Park
1221 2 St SW
Calgary , AB T2R 1N8
Canada
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Description

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 Russell Lambert Boyle, and a cenotaph. The former Colonel Belcher veterans hospital was located across 4th street SW to the West, now the site of the Sheldon M. Chumir Centre.HistoryThe park occupies one entire city block between 12th and 13th Avenues SW, bounded by 2nd and 4th Streets. Totalling 4.68acre, the park was designed in 1889 and landscaped in Victorian style.The park went through a major revitalization in 2008-2009 at a cost of $11.5 million, and the renovated park was re-opened in May 2010.MonumentsThe sculptor was Louis Philippe Hébert, who also did the Indian family grouping in front of the Legislature in Quebec City. The death of an English soldier in Calgary led to the creation of the South African War Memorial. Quebec sculptor, Louis Phillipe Hébert, was visiting his cousins, the Miquelon family in Calgary, at the turn of the century when they came upon the body of a soldier in a ditch in the Killarney area. It seems he had died from lead poisoning and no one had known about his illness. Members of the Calgary-based Lord Strathcona Horse Regiment who had fought in the South African Boer War (1899 - 1902) took up a collection and efforts were made to trace his family in England. It was decided that the men who fought in the war should be commemorated and Hébert said, "I'll put up a statue taller than your trees." Further funds were raised and Hébert was commissioned to create a statue in 1911. It was unveiled in 1914.

Opening time

  • Mondays: 05:00- 23:00
  • Tuesdays: 05:00- 23:00
  • Wednesdays: 05:00- 23:00
  • Thursdays: 05:00- 23:00
  • Fridays: 05:00- 23:00
  • Saturdays: 05:00- 23:00
  • Sundays: 05:00- 23:00

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Central Memorial Park is Calgary based place and this enity listed in Park category. Located at 1221 2 St SW AB T2R 1N8.

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