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Centennial/Pierpoint Park

Bob and I took Jack to a new (to us) park for another local walk about in St Catharines. It was a 10 minute drive to what is now Richard Pierpoint Park. It was originally called Centennial Gardens and was unveiled in 1976 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Canada.

In 2021, the park was renamed after Richard Pierpoint, one of Canada’s most famous Black loyalists, and who lived on land that is now part of the park. The park contains a lovely trail (apparently a portion of the Merritt Trail (though we can’t make it link up with the other sections we’ve been on) and a disc golf course. There was supposedly a totem pole given for the Centennial celebration, but is not currently there or is very short, as we didn’t see it.

A good history of Richard, Captain Dick, Pierpoint,
originally from Senegal, who was shipped to America
and became a slave to a British officer.
He gained his freedom through military service.
Park Map
One of the markers for the disc golf course
Heading off
Awesome trail
A building near the park and one of many benches along the trail
First view of the first dam or water intake structure
that we crossed at one end of the trail,
where the creek that runs along the trail ends.
Looking up the creek from the far end
One of the disc golf “holes“
Plenty of scents
A pretty picnic area on a hill along the trail
The bridge crossing at the other end
of the loop portion on the trail
Water running over a dam in the creek
A community garden

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