Renaming of Parks Initiative

The City of Prince Albert, with the Royal Canadian Legion and the Anavets, renamed 16 park spaces within the City of Prince Albert after Veterans and community leaders. The renaming initiative has been a year-long process.

"We are very proud to recognize the Veterans and elected officials that made major contributions to our community in this way by naming these park spaces after them," says Jody Boulet, Director of Community Services, City of Prince Albert.

Twelve parks are named after veterans, and four after elective officials. Metal Man out of Saskatoon was awarded the tender and designed and constructed the signs. The steel is sandblasted, and oxidation causes the natural patina finish. If any graffiti is placed on the signs in the future, it will ground off, and the finish will reappear. The decision to go with this finish was made to match the natural setting of the parks.

"We wanted to go the extra step and recognize our veterans, and a simple way to do that was placing four red poppies on the signs to distinguish them as veterans." Says Tim Yeaman, Parks Manager with the City of Prince Albert

The signs are installed at the following locations:

• Norman Henderson Park – River Street West and 16th Avenue West 
• Emile Highway Park – River Street West and 4th Avenue West 
• Lee Atkinson Park (formerly Midtown Park) – 9th Street East and 6th Avenue East 
• Steven Ross Park – River Street East and 8th Avenue East 
• Don Cody Park – River Street East and 11th Avenue East 
• Eldon Lautermilch Park – River Street East and 14th Avenue East 
• George Sutherland Park (formerly Agnew Park) – Agnew Street 
• Thomas Settee Park (formerly Crescent Heights Park) – Cook Drive 
• Glenn Martin Park (formerly Davis Park) – Davis Street 
• Nelson Park (formerly Longworth Park) –Sibbald Crescent 
• Albert E. Gosselin Park (formerly Erickson Park) – Erickson Crescent 
• John Hall Park (formerly Barton/Coombe Park) – Barton Drive 
• Loyd Smith Park (formerly Dent Park) – Dent Crescent 
• Amy Meadows Park (formerly Hogeweide Park) – Hogeweide Drive  
• Myron Kowalsky Park (formerly Southwood Park) – Southwood Drive 
• Edwin G. Laird Park (formerly Muzzy Drive Park) – Muzzy Drive

Learn more about this initiative, please visit: https://www.citypa.ca/parknames/

For more information, please contact:

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Tim Yeaman,
Parks and Open Space Manager
City of Prince Albert
306 953-4800