In 1946, a group of Brittania Boating Club members got together, pooled their money, and bought the property at Baskins’ Beach for $700, which they named the Britannia Boating Club Memorial Park for; “the express purpose of acquiring and developing a parcel of land as an up-river park in memory of those members of the Club who have fallen in the Empire’s Wars”.
The Brittania Boating Club Memorial Park features a Memorial Cairn and a flagpole. It was dedicated in 1949 in honour of the Yacht Club (then called the Britannia Boating Club) members who were killed overseas during the First and Second World Wars.
