Gilberts: Did you know Chatham once had a Victoria Park?

Gilberts: Did you know Chatham once had a Victoria Park?

If you travel around Ontario, then you probably know that many towns and cities have a park, usually in or near their city centres, called Victoria Park. I believe that’s because the latter nineteenth century, when Queen Victoria was in the prime of her reign, was also a time when Ontario was developing parks.  People had more leisure time and they also had more money to spend. They wanted their communities to have beautiful parks where they cou…