Confederation Park - Parks 100 Traditional Cache
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Confederation Park - Parks 100
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Calgary Parks 100 Project - Confederation Park
Calgary Area Cachers teaming up with The City of Calgary Parks
Celebrating Calgary Parks 100th Anniversary
The Calgary Parks 100 Project is a partnership between the City of Calgary Parks, and the Calgary Area Cachers to celebrate Calgary Parks 100th anniversary. Calgary Parks has supplied cache containers and swag for 100 caches, and the we have placed these 100 caches in 100 parks around Calgary. These caches have some cool swag and trackables when placed, so make sure to find them as soon as they are published.
Developed prior to, and opened in 1967, Confederation Park was dedicated by the City of Calgary to commemorate the centennial of Confederation in Canada.
Confederation Park is directly associated with Harry Boothman, an outstanding, visionary Superintendent of parks in the history of Calgary. Boothman's vision and work, and this park represent both the urban populist and and environmental movements emerging in the 1960s and '70s.
The establishment of Confederation Park from the area formerly known as the North Hill Coulee was influenced by an unprecedented community effort on the part of North Hill businessmen and residents in the neighborhoods of Mount Pleasant, Capitol Hill, Rosemont and Cambrian Heights. Alderman Eric Musgreave, founder and leader of the Centennial Ravine Park Society was named Citizen of the Year for these efforts. The Society's suggested name for the new park, Confederation Park, was adopted by Council.
Confederation park comprises four segments. The most easterly part beginning opposite 32nd Avenue and Queen’s Park Cemetery has the Centennial features adjoining 10th Street. The area between 10th Street and 14th Street has as a storm water pond as its central feature. The area between 14th and 19th Streets is the Confederation Park Golf Course. The segment west of 19th Street, now named Canmore Park is the head of the coulee and contains a preserved remnant of native prairie grassland.
Confederation Park is an exceptionally beautiful, extraordinary achievement in park design and development which involved the contribution and work of individuals prominent in the horticultural and park-making professions in Calgary and area.
Created from a rough, featureless coulee, the design is of the romantic, naturalistic order and style and representative of the context of environmentalism. It is a landmark in the trend toward naturalistic, general purpose, "Parks for People" in Calgary.
The Cache
The cache site is in the Centennial commemorative area overlooking the developed coulee and creek.
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