Ashburnham Memorial Park
Municipality/Province: Peterborough, ON
Memorial number: 35067-029
Type: Park
Address: Museum Drive
GPS coordinates: Lat: 44.3118471 Long: -78.3022247
Submitted by: Victoria Edwards
Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials
The Ashburnham Women's Patriotic League bought Armour hill in 1923 as a park to be dedicated to the fallen of the First World War. Over the next few years, the league purchased saplings to be planted and commissioned the construction of a new road, now known as Museum Drive.
In 1937, the League donated the land to the City of Peterborough as Ashburnham Memorial Park and in June of 1959, a memorial cairn and plaque were unveiled.
Inscription found on memorial
ASHBURNHAM
MEMORIAL PARK
THIS PARK WAS GIVEN
TO THE
CITY OF PETERBOROUGH
BY THE WOMEN'S
PATRIOTIC LEAGUE OF
ASHBURNHAM
IN MEMORY OF THE
MEN OF PETERBOROUGH
WHO FELL
IN THE GREAT WAR OF
1914 — 1918
Street view
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