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| Plan of Government Farm and City Park by John Ball, Surveyor, June 2, 1873 |
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| An 1873 provincial statute vested 40 acres of Government Farm in the City of Charlottetown "for the sole purpose of a park, promenade and pleasure ground, for the use of the citizens (of Charlottetown), the inhabitants of this Island, and all Her Majesty's subjects." Charlottetown City Council was responsible for the maintenance of the Park. The land at Victoria Park had originally been laid out as part of the Charlottetown Common, but in 1789 Governor Edmund Fanning appropriated one hundred acres of the land for the residence and use of the Lieutenant Governor of P.E.I. | | Next>>> | | Previous<<< |
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