City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . Galloway. Private D. L. Moore, Lance-Corporal A. E. Merix, Private E. Mullins,Private W. R. Stevenson, Sergt. Hendrie,Sergt. Bethune, Bugler Beales. The following Londoners who had beenmembers of the 26th Battalion also left: W. , H. H. Donohue, J. A. Dunnigan, , W. J. Green, A. W. Woodward, , Robert Smith, J. C. Hill and A. Mc-Murchy. The need of a public park never entered Wharncliffe and Wortley Roads. Agitationfor a park began in 1868, and that year thecourt-house grounds were granted for thepu
City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . Galloway. Private D. L. Moore, Lance-Corporal A. E. Merix, Private E. Mullins,Private W. R. Stevenson, Sergt. Hendrie,Sergt. Bethune, Bugler Beales. The following Londoners who had beenmembers of the 26th Battalion also left: W. , H. H. Donohue, J. A. Dunnigan, , W. J. Green, A. W. Woodward, , Robert Smith, J. C. Hill and A. Mc-Murchy. The need of a public park never entered Wharncliffe and Wortley Roads. Agitationfor a park began in 1868, and that year thecourt-house grounds were granted for thepurpose, on condition that trees be plantedand the grounds improved. A few trees wereplanted, but the matter ended at that. Tenyears later Salters grove (now Queens Park)was acquired by the city, and in 1873, afterthe burning of the old barracks, the ordinancelands became the propei^ty of the corporation,and the present Victoria Park sprang intoexistence, being dedicated by the Governor-General, Lord Dufferin, on August 27, Park was then a piece of virgin ground,. VIEW, LOOKI>fG SOUTH-BAST FROM SOUTHERN FIRE HALL NO. 3. the minds of the early settlers. And whyshould it ? It was only necessary to step outof the log cabin to have the whole Provincefor a park. Col. Burwell was the first to fore-see the need of the future, and he deeded tothe city St. James Park, which was succes-sively a potato patch and pasture field, butnever a park. In 1855 the city fenced it, butin the following year it was leased to ThomasFrancis, who used it for the purpose statedtill it was a few years since cut up into build-ing lots. Few of the latter-day residents knowof its location. It was the piece of groundbetween the track and Stanley street, and the with no trees upon it, but the plans had beenwell prepared—the services of the gardener ofFairmount Park, Philadelphia, having beensecured—trees were transplanted bodily bycitizens — Monte Cristos achievement on asmall scale—and to-day
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