Starting in 2001, residents of the area around Victoria Square and others began meeting regularly under the auspices of the local councillor to develop a plan for upgrading the landscape of the park. This included marking the limits of the military cemetery with lines of granite blocks in the grass, creating a less formal system of paths—originally they were straight diagonals—removing and restoring the surviving grave markers, assembling them in a line on the edge of the burial area, and erecting
seven interpretive plaques.
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Victoria Memorial Square Update Plan
Image courtesy The Planning Partnership, E.R.A. Architects Inc., and Archaeological Services Inc.
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