Veterans' Green Park

This park is dedicated to all veterans. Located in this park is a statue dedicated to the veterans (#35038-003) as well as interpretive panels describing the veterans’ return from the Second World War.

Inscription

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Veterans’ Green
Neighbourhood

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Over one million Canadians enlisted for
military service duiring the Second World
War. For those who returned hoom, housing
shortages were widespread. Recognizing the
need for housing locall, the Town of
Waterloo and Housing Enterprises Canad
Limited announced in September 1946, one
of Ontario’s first housing projects for
returning Veterans.

In the rural north end of Waterloo, fifty
terrace units were built for rent as part of
the “Hillcrest Development” between
Dearborn (now University Avenue) and Hill
(now Hickory) Streets. A second phase of
construction in 1948 produced 83 1 1/2
storey houses that Veterans could purchase
along Hazel, Beech, Fir and Hickory
Streets.

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As families settled in this neighbourhood, a
sense of community produced a yearly skating
rink in this location, a horseshoe pit in the
back of Maple Court and community garden
plots on Albert Street. Local children attended
school at Northdale, MacGregor, St. Michel,
St. David or Waterloo Collegiate Institute.

Family block parties were celebrated in the
1970s and neighbourhood reunions rekindle
the memories of groiwing up in this area.
Gradually, over the years this community
would become home to many university
students attending Wilfrid Laurier University
and the University of Waterloo.

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The redevelopment of this parkette in 2005, the “Year of the Veteran”,
commemorates and honours this area’s first residents and their families

Ce parc est dédié à tous les anciens combattants. Il s’y trouve une statue érigée en l’honneur des anciens combattants (#35038-003) ainsi que des tableaux d’interprétation qui décrivent le retour des anciens combattants à la fin de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale.

Le texte de l’inscription figure dans la section anglaise.