Monday, February 03, 2020

McIntosh Memorial Park

In Berwick, Ontario, McIntosh Memorial Park occupies a place a short distance south of the southwest corner of Crysler Road and Union Street.






SOUTH NATION
CONSERVATION
DE LA NATION SUD





McIntosh Memorial Park

Several individuals and families made generous contributions in memory of their loved ones to enable the creation of this park and the planting of its trees. Their vision and commitment to the community will be appreciated for generations to come.


Le Parc commémoratif McIntosh

Plusieurs individus et familles ont fait de généreurses contributions à la mémoire de leurs bien-aimés por permettre la création de ce parc et la plantation de ses arbres. Leur vision et leur engagement envers la communauté seront appréciés pour des générations à venir.







B.C. (Mickey) MacIntosh
1908-1999
Property Donated in Memory of a
Lifelong Citizen of Berwick &
Benefactor to Local Community



DID YOU KNOW...
IN THE 1950'S BERWICK HAD
ITS OWN RACETRACK & A
GRANDSTAND. IT WAS LOCATED
NORTH OF THE PRESENT
BALL DIAMOND.


DID YOU KNOW...
IN 1897, THE NEW YORK CENTRAL
RAILWAY WAS BUILT & A STATION
ERECTED IN BERWICK. IN 1898,
THE ROUNDTRIP FARE FROM
BERWICK TO OTTAWA WAS $1.20.



DID YOU KNOW...
THE BERWICK WOMEN'S INSTITUTE
WAS ESTABLISHED ON FEB. 11, 1915.
AFTER DECADES OF GOOD WORK
FOR THE COMMUNITY, IT WAS
DISBANDED ON OCT. 29, 1993.



DID YOU KNOW...
There was a Church at the
corner of Cockburn & Union Street
facing east from 1883-1986.
It was a Methodist Church until 1925
When it became St. Pauls United.





DID YOU KNOW...
THE FIRST CHEESE FACTORY
IN BERWICK WAS BUILT IN 1884.
IT WAS CLOSED IN THE 1970'S
BY KRAFT FOODS LTD.






DID YOU KNOW...
MR. B.C. McINTOSH OPERATED
A FEED STORE BEGINNING IN THE
1940'S UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN
IN THE LATE 1980'S.




DID YOU KNOW...
THE OLDEST HOUSE IN BERWICK WAS
BUILT IN APPROXIMATELY 1857 BY
BELLE LEGGE & STANDS AT THE
CORNER OF COCKBURN & PEARL ST.


AIRE DE CONSERVATION
McIntosh Park
CONSERVATION AREA


South Nation Conservation de la Nation Sud