McAdam Heritage Park

McAdam Heritage Park, developed circa 1976, is a two-acre grassed park along Saunders Road in front of McAdam’s historic railway station containing monuments and artefacts relating to the village’s heritage.

McAdam Heritage Park is designated a Local Historic Place for being a place to exhibit artefacts and commemoration plaques celebrating the Village of McAdam’s history. Developed by the village, the site includes artefacts and monuments relating to the village’s railway history, military efforts and other local points of interest. The park was also created to provide the village with a place of leisure and recreation from what was an unusable piece of swamp land in order to improve the frontal appearance of McAdam’s national treasure, the McAdam Railway Station National and Provincial Historic Site.

Source: McAdam Village Office, Historic Places File, “McAdam Heritage Park”

The character defining elements of McAdam Heritage Park include:

- 1910 vintage Canadian Pacific Railway wooden caboose #436504, restored by the Canadian Pacific Railway Car Department and placed in the park in early 1960’s;

- commemorative granite monument inscribed in memory of four young airmen;

- display of a circa 1900 hand car and velocipede, a centennial project of local Boy Scouts;

- carved tree statue of a train conductor depicting railway history;

- World War I bronze commemorative tablet honouring Canadian Pacific Railway employees called to duty;

- granite monument and bronze plaque placed by Historic Sites and Monument Board of Canada in recognition of McAdam Junction and McAdam Railway Station;

- heritage building containing a collection of artefacts from McAdam’s Shoe Hospital;

- modern amenities, including two tennis courts, walking paths, park benches, picnic tables and green space for leisure and recreation;

- site of the Glacier Rock Local Historic Place.