Graves-Oakley Memorial Park

Graves-Oakley Memorial Park
Type Public park
Location Halifax, Nova Scotia
Created 1988
Operated by Halifax Regional Municipality

Graves-Oakley Memorial Park is a Canadian urban park and sports field located in the Leiblin Park in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality.[1]

Features

History

Two young children, brother and sister, became lost in the woods around this area in 1969 during a major snow storm. The community quickly spread the news of the search for these children. The community attempted to organize a search with friends, neighbors, Halifax Police, Spryfield's fire department and J. Albert Walker Ambulance.

The older sister asked her brother to wait on a rock while she continued to look for a way home. He was found early on in the search, but the little girl died due to the winter storm. To make things worse one of the community volunteers became lost himself and died of exposure also.

In 1972, Bill Lockhart, Ken Oakes, and Dick MacDonald, with the assistance of the Emergency Measures Organization of Nova Scotia, formed one Canadian's best rescue teams,[5] the Waverley Ground Search and Rescue Team as a result of this search.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.halifax.ca/rec/fieldsinhrm.php
  2. ↑ http://halifax.ca/archives/HalifaxCityMinutes/documents/102-1a-1988-p264-326.pdf
  3. ↑ http://hwmba.ca/venue.php?venue_id=22043
  4. ↑ https://www.halifax.ca/commcoun/ccc/documents/081103.pdf
  5. ↑ http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/ja02/lost.asp
  6. ↑ http://halifaxsar.ca/about/

Coordinates: 44°35′48.6″N 63°37′37.4″W / 44.596833°N 63.627056°W / 44.596833; -63.627056


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