This gorgeous park was predominantly the work of one man, Frank Stevens, gardens supervisor from 1992 to 2010, aided by a crew of volunteers. The 3.8-acre site is listed at Tourism PEI as
PEI's Largest Municipal Gardens. Among the features to be found within the gardens is the town's cenotaph, located here previously, possibly in 1967, when this was initially created as A A MacDonald Memorial Park.
The cenotaph consists of a grey granite stele with inscriptions for World War I and World War II, including the names of the men of Georgetown who never returned. The stele stands on a horizontal granite base set inside an annual bed which, in turn, rests on a two stepped concrete base. The cenotaph is about in the centre of the southern half of the gardens, to the northeast of King's Playhouse.
The inscription on the cenotaph reads:
TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF
OUR NATIVE SONS WHO PAID THE SUPREME
SACRIFICE IN THE TWO WORLD WARS
1914-1918
OUR HONOURED DEAD |
1939-1945
OUR HONOURED DEAD |
STEPHEN F. CHERRY
JOHN P. DALTON
TEMPLE W. MACDONALD M.C.
GUY MACPHEE
JOHN MACPHEE
JOHN LAVERS
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OLIVER J. BABINEAU
NEWMAN BATCHILDER
RUDOLPH FOUCHERE
WALTER ST.X. JAMIESON
JAMES KEENAN
HUGH MACDONALD
FRANCIS MACEACHERN
FREDERICK WALKER
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ALSO IN EVERLASTING GRATITUDE
TO THOSE WHO, DARING TO DIE, SURVIVED