Sir Sandford Fleming Park, known locally as The Dingle Park (He called it the "Dingle", meaning 'wooded valley'), is a 95-acre (38 ha) urban park located in the Halifax Regional Municipality in the subdivision of Jollimore, Canada.
Designed by Sidney Perry Dumaresq (architect), The Memorial Tower (Dingle Tower) (1910–12) in Sir Sandford Fleming Park stands out as a rare form of architectural expression in this period of rising Canadian nationalism and fervent loyalty to the British Empire. The Memorial Tower is architecturally important because it combines Italianate influences with local construction methods and materials. The tower commemorates Nova Scotia achieving representative government on 2 October 1758, the first colony in the British Empire to do so.
The Memorial Tower was completed in 1912, a number of years after the building of the commemorative Cabot Tower (Newfoundland) (1900) and the Cabot Tower, Bristol (1898).
Read more about Sir Sandford Fleming Park: Summer Retreat, Dingle Tower, Present-day Park
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