Grosvenor Park, Saskatoon

History

The land for the Grosvenor Park neighbourhood was annexed by the city between 1910 and 1919. | access-date = 2010-01-29}} The majority of home construction occurred between 1946 and 1970 and was predominantly finished by 1980.

The street names honour prominent early settlers of Nutana:

• Bate Crescent - W.P. Bate, first Secretary Treasurer of the Saskatoon Public School Board.{{cite web | access-date = 2007-11-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110721092251/http://schools.spsd.sk.ca/nutana/history_of_nutana.htm | archive-date = 2011-07-21 | url-status = dead | author-link = W.P. Bate | access-date = 2007-11-24 }}
• Copland Crescent, Court - Copland, Thomas (1842-1906), city councillor (1903-1904).{{cite web | access-date = 2010-01-29 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120227073739/http://www.saskatoon.ca/DEPARTMENTS/Infrastructure%20Services/Parks/Woodlawn%20Cemetery/General%20Interest/Documents/COPLAND.pdf | archive-date = 2012-02-27 | url-status = dead | access-date = 2007-11-24 }}
• Garrison Crescent - George Wesley Garrison, pioneer. He built a two-storey fieldstone house on the northwest corner of Broadway Avenue and 10th Street. In 1918 it was dismantled down to the stone foundation and rebuilt with concrete and brick veneer.{{cite web |access-date = 2007-11-25 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100619081903/http://www.onbroadway.ca/heritage2.htm#GarrisonHouse |archive-date = 2010-06-19
• Isbister Street - Malcolm Scarth Halsetter Isbister, mayor of Saskatoon (1905) and president of the Board of Trade.{{cite web | access-date = 2010-01-29 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120227073757/http://www.saskatoon.ca/DEPARTMENTS/Infrastructure%20Services/Parks/Woodlawn%20Cemetery/Documents/isbister.html | archive-date = 2012-02-27 | url-status = dead
• Lake Crescent - John Lake, first commissioner of the Temperance Colonization Society and recognized founder of Saskatoon.{{cite web | access-date = 2007-11-25 }}{{cite web | access-date = 2007-11-25 }}
• Latham Place - Peter Latham (1835-1912), 2nd president of the Temperance Colony Pioneers' Society (1882){{cite web | access-date = 2007-11-25 }}
• Leslie Avenue - James Leslie, moved to Saskatoon with the Temperance Colony. He opened a general store (1896) and flour milling/grain company (1906) with future mayor James R. Wilson. In 1903 he was president of the newly formed Board of Trade.{{cite web | access-date = 2010-01-29 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120312090852/http://www.saskatoon.ca/DEPARTMENTS/City%20Clerks%20Office/City%20Archives/City%20History/Documents/A_Seat_on_Council_March_2009.pdf | archive-date = 2012-03-12 | url-status = dead | access-date = 2007-11-25 }}

Grosvenor Park School opened in 1958 and was named after the subdivision as it was the first school in the area.{{cite book | access-date = 2010-01-29 | access-date = 2007-11-23 }}

Government and politics

Grosvenor Park exists within the federal electoral district of Saskatoon—University. It is currently represented by Corey Tochor of the Conservative Party of Canada, who was first elected in 2019.

Provincially, Grosvenor Park lies within the constituency of Saskatoon University. It is currently represented by Eric Olauson of the Saskatchewan Party, first elected in 2016.

In Saskatoon's non-partisan municipal politics, Grosvenor Park lies within ward 6. It is currently represented by Councillor Cynthia Block, first elected in 2016.

Institutions

Education

A former public elementary school, Grosvenor Park School, is now the Saskatoon Islamic Centre; they offer Quranic, Arabic and other Islamic studies on weekends during five months of the year. Public elementary school students who reside in the neighbourhood attend Brunskill School in neighboring Varsity View. In 2008, the Saskatoon Public School Division made the private Saskatoon Misbah School an associate school, which operates out of the Islamic Centre.{{cite news |archive-url = https://archive.today/20130118184950/http://www2.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/local/story.html?id=9b1b4078-582f-4a00-afdf-37a7e24fa806&p=1 |url-status = dead |archive-date = January 18, 2013 |access-date = 2012-11-02

Parks and recreation

• Albert Olton Park - 0.9 acres
• Latham Park - 1.0 acres
• Rod V. Real Park - 1.6 acres
• Grosvenor Park - 6.8 acres

The Varsity View Community Association organizes events, delivers recreational and leisure programs, coordinates sports programs for children/youth and maintains the outdoor rink at Brunskill School. Its jurisdiction includes the neighbourhood of Grosvenor Park.{{cite web | access-date = 2010-01-29}}

Commercial

Commercial development is limited to the southern edge of the neighbourhood, where businesses lie within the 8th Street business district. Grosvenor Park Centre, a large strip mall complex with about 30 businesses, is located on the corner of 8th Street and Preston Avenue.{{cite web | access-date = 2007-11-25}} Opened in June 1960, it is Saskatoon's second-oldest shopping centre; the Churchill Shopping Centre in the Adelaide/Churchill neighbourhood is the oldest.{{cite web |access-date=2007-11-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202063059/http://www.saskatoon.ca/org/development/resources/business_profile_newsletters/newsletter_fall2005.pdf |archive-date=2007-12-02 |url-status=dead

Location

Grosvenor Park is located within the Nutana Suburban Development Area. It is bounded by 14th Street to the north, 8th Street to the south, Cumberland Avenue to the west, and Preston Avenue to the east. Roads are laid out in a mix of crescents and avenues. Main Street is a minor arterial street in the south part of the neighbourhood, separating the single detached housing area to the north from the apartment buildings to the south.

References

References

2. "Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan - Members of the Legislative Assembly".
3. "Historical Background".
4. "Active List of Saskatchewan Schools/Programs".