Robert Gray Park - Kanata, Ontario
Posted by: elyob
N 45° 18.974 W 075° 53.843
18T E 429662 N 5018472
Be careful parking. There is no parking lot and the street can be busy.
Waymark Code: WMVQGA
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 05/18/2017
Views: 3
This park and the street are memorials to Robert Gray who won the Victoria Cross in 1945. Gray was one of the last Canadians to be killed in combat near the end of the Second World War. Many parks in this neighbourhood celebrate those who have earned the Victoria Cross. There is a bilingual interpretive sign in the park.
The park is bordered on the east by Gray Crescent and on the south by the pedestrian bridge across the divided highway. The park is most well used by families with children at the playground and by the cyclists using the bike paths which intersect this park. Eventually, there will be new park space just to the northwest of Robert Gray Park.
In size, the park covers 0.646 hectares or about 1.6 acres. The present pedestrian bridge which exits to the south dates from 2004, having replaced an earlier structure. This park dates from that same period. Playground construction began in 2006.