This 1.5 acre park was named Burnaby South Memorial Park on November 3, 1993, by the Burnaby Parks, Recreation and Culture Commission's Parks, Names and Signs Committee, at the request of the Burnaby Heritage Advisory Committee (now the Community Heritage Commission.) The land was previously the site of the Burnaby South High School, but obtained by the city in 1989.
Within the park there are Memorial Tennis Courts and a Cenotaph that were dedicated in 1948 to the memory of 51 former students of the older school who died in the Second World War.