Description of Historic Place

Sinclair Park is a neighbourhood playground located on two lots mid-block in the residential neighbourhood of Glenbrooke North on the south side of Sinclair Avenue between First and Second Streets.

Heritage Value

Constructed in 1954, Sinclair Park, with its close connection to surrounding housing, is an important marker of the child-oriented planning of residential parks after the Second World War, and reflects the City's long-standing park planning policy.

The park is also important for its value in the neighbourhood as an open and natural place to play, and is apprecaited for its incorporation of recreational facilities (play structures, bench seating).

Sinclair Park is important for being in the approximate line of the historic Glen Creek . Although the creek has been buried in a culvert, this park is a physical link to the historic landscape that gave the neighbourhood its name.

Source: City of New Westminster Planning Department

Character-Defining Elements

Key elements that define the heritage character of Sinclair Park include its:

Siting, Context and Landscape
- open landscape plan
- two typical residential lots

Architectural Elements
- standardized play and seating furniture
- bollards at lane property line
- extensive lawn