Pauline Vanier Park

Pauline Vanier Park is a public park in Ottawa's Riverside Park area, located on Harkness Avenue.[1] It is named after Pauline Vanier.

The park was built in the early 1960s on what had been the Munro farm, next to neighbouring General Vanier Public School.

The Riverside Park Community and Recreation Association organized fireworks displays for over twenty years until changes in safety legislation required its removal to a larger area. Sheldon Ridgeway, then an Ottawa firefighter, started the public activity. After a six-year gap, the fireworks display was moved to Mooney's Bay in 2015.[2]

  1. ^ "Park locations - east". City of Ottawa. Archived from the original on 20 August 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  2. ^ McCracken, Erin (2 January 2015). "Volunteers needed for Victoria Day fireworks". Ottawa South News. METROLAND NEWS.