King's Forest Park
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Cochrane Road is a two-way Lower City collector road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at the Queenston Traffic Circle and travels South between the Bartonville and Glenview neighbourhoods right through to the Rosedale neighbourhood where it ends at Greenhill Avenue in front of Rosedale Park. From this point onwards the road is now known as Whitehouse Road and weaves its way through King's Forest Golf Course and King's Forest Park.
King's Forest Park
King's Forest Park in Hamilton was commissioned as part of the City Beautiful movement, spearheaded in Hamilton by the Hamilton Parks Board with the leadership of Thomas McQuesten.[1]
Environs
Albion Falls, a classical/cascade waterfall, and one of Hamilton's 100+ waterfalls, is at the back-end of King's Forest Park. A nearby parking lot was removed when the construction of the nearby Red Hill Valley Parkway started. A parking lot at Mountain Brow Road above the falls for 50+ cars is still available for visitors.[2] A small village called Albion Mills existed here until the early 1900s. The rocks from the Albion Falls area were used to construct the Rock Garden at the Royal Botanical Gardens. Another waterfall can be found nearby, northwest of Albion Falls called, Buttermilk Falls. Not too far off and just east of the newly built Red Hill Valley Parkway at the Glendale Golf & Country Club is another waterfall called Glendale Falls on Mount Albion Road.[3][4]
King's Forest Golf Club was established in 1974 and is run by the city of Hamilton. The Red Hill Creek and many fair-sized ponds come into play.[5] Credited as being one of the very best municipally owned courses in Canada.[6]
1960s zoo proposal
In September 1961 the city's board of control authorized the formation of a zoo committee to look into the proposal of building a zoo at Kings Forest, an idea that had been mooted for the previous decade.[7] A site was selected at the south end of King's Forest, in the Red Hill Valley, and plans were drawn up in January 1963 by local architect Charles Lenz for a "Proposed Royal Zoological Park in the King's Forest".[7] His design incorporated moat- and rail- surrounded land animal enclosures surrounding ponds for birds, with a few small buildings for administration and suchlike and an encircling ring road with radial footpaths inwards therefrom.[8] An an attempt to mollify critics of zoos, which included the Citizens Against a Hamilton Zoo lobbying group, the zoo plans incorporated a new headquarters building for the SPCA.[9] The Board of Parks Management set aside 25 acres (10 ha) in April 1963 for the project.[9]
The project failed for two reasons. First, the city's budget was cut and could no longer afford the projected US$405,000 (equivalent to $3,978,734 in 2023) cost of the initial phase of the zoo construction.[9] Second, the planned Red Hill Valley Parkway was re-routed in March 1964 over some of the land that had been set aside for the zoo, and in September 1964 the Board of Parks Management informed the zoo committee that the land not allocated for the Parkway was no longer going to be set aside for a zoo, because the Parkway plans plus the (then) proposed hydro-electric towers were already set to consume a sizeable chunk of Red Hill Valley.[10]
Images
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King's Forest Golf Course -
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Bridge over Red Hill Creek, King's Forest Park -
King's Forest Park, looking South -
Red Hill Creek, King's Forest Park -
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Bruce Trail, King's Forest Park -
Bruce Trail, King's Forest Park -
Red Hill Creek, King's Forest Park -
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Albion Falls, King's Forest Park -
Albion Falls, King's Forest Park -
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Albion Falls, King's Forest Park
See also
References
- ^ Anderson 2006, pp. 15–16.
- ^ "Albion Falls". (www.gowaterfalling.com). Retrieved 2007-04-18.
- ^ "Albion Falls". Hamilton Conservation Authority. Archived from the original on 2007-04-07. Retrieved 2007-04-18.
- ^ "Buttermilk Falls". Hamilton Conservation Authority. Archived from the original on 2007-04-08. Retrieved 2007-04-18.
- ^ "King's Forest Golf Club". OntGolf.ca. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-04-18.
- ^ "King's Forest Golf Club". GolfCanada.com. Retrieved 2007-04-18.
- ^ a b Osbaldeston 2016, p. 186.
- ^ Osbaldeston 2016, pp. 186–187.
- ^ a b c Osbaldeston 2016, p. 187.
- ^ Osbaldeston 2016, pp. 187–188.
- MapArt Golden Horseshoe Atlas - Page 648 - Grids G18, H18, J18, K18
Bibliography
- Anderson, Mary J., ed. (2006). The Life Writings of Mary Baker McQuesten: Victorian Matriarch Life Writing. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 9780889205413.
- Osbaldeston, Mark (2016). Unbuilt Hamilton: The City That Might Have Been. Dundurn. ISBN 9781459733008.
