Victoria Park, St. John's
Victoria Park is a Victorian era urban park, named for Queen Victoria, and located in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The park has street frontage on Water Street, Sudbury Street, Hamilton Avenue, and Angel Place and occupies most of the block bounded by Water Street, Sudbury Street, Hamilton Avenue, Alexander Street in the city's "west end." History. In the early 1800s the land that would become Victoria Park was part of the urban periphery. On June 4th, 1813, the corner stone was laid on the site for a new general hospital by Governor  Keats. By 1835 conditions at the hospital had deteriorated considerably and the institution was found to house more of the poor and destitute of the city than the sick. An editiorial in 1845 described how it was "heart-rending to behold the accumulation of human misery which [was] to be seen there." In 1888 the Municipal Council of St. John's committed $10,000 to the development of both Bannerman Park and Victoria Park. The St. John's Hospital was abandoned the same year and burned down a year later. Bandstand and monument to Moses Monroe. Fifteen-foot high goblet , originally with lions' head fountains pouring into a shallow bowl. On July 2nd, 1963, The Lions' Club opened an outdoor pool in the park, their second after that of Bannerman Park. Amenities. Victoria Park's amenities include a baseball field, sledding hill, playground, dog park, community garden, and a former pool house used by community groups including the Friends of Victoria Park. The park features several sculptures and other features including a bronze monument by Morgan Macdonald titled "100 Faces of the Great War."