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Cedarvale Park is a municipal park located at 181-185 Main St. S. Georgetown, Ontario—a short walk from downtown. It is a multi-use facility, open year-round. ==Facilities== * Official Size Soccer Field * Four Mini Soccer Fields * Toboggan Hills * Hiking Trails * Riverside Benches * Barbecues * First Aid Station * Children's Playground Cedarvale Park was home to the orphaned Armenian boys brought to Georgetown in 1923. Scott McLaughlin, a native of Scotland, emigrated to Canada and settled in Glen Williams. In the 1870s McLaughlin purchased 80 hectares of land on the southeast limits of the village of Georgetown and called it Cedar Vale Farm. Michael, Scott and Rachel McLaughlin's youngest child, born in 1886, first worked as a teller at the Bank of Hamilton (now the Old Bank on Main Street Georgetown). Michael quit in 1923 when the Armenian Relief Association of Canada purchased a large portion of the property for Armenian orphaned boys. The Georgetown Boys were part of a rescue operation for refugees from the Armenian genocide in the 1920s. The Georgetown Boys Farm was located in what is now Cedarvale Park. That area was later purchased by the Town of Georgetown as a centennial project and is now known as Cedarvale Park. An Ontario Provincial Plaque 〔http://www.anctoronto.org/PressReleases/Pages/2011-06-06.aspx〕 was erected in Cedarvale Park on June 26, 2010 designating it a municipal historic site honouring the Armenian boys who lived there. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cedarvale Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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