Calgary Parks 100 Project, celebrating Calgary Parks 100th
Anniversary!
Calgary Area Cachers teaming up with The City of Calgary Parks
Dept.
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 we have placed these 100
caches in 100 parks around Calgary.
Peace Park is located at the west end of the Eau Claire
Promenade. In 1992 the park was dedicated as part of a Canada 125
project to commemorate Canada's peacekeepers.
The sandstone Memorial Arch acts as a memorial to the soldiers who
died in World War 1, 2 and the Korean War. Originally, the Arch was
part of the Strathcona Building (an office block that stood east of
City Hall, built during WW1). The Arch was salvaged when the
building was demolished and spent several years in City storage
before it was erected at the Bridgeland LRT station in 1985. It was
dismantled block by block and reconstructed in Peace Park in
1992.