Opened in 1967, this passive park features an 18-hole disc golf course, trails and a community garden. Originally constructed to mark Canada’s Centennial and named Centennial Gardens, the park was renamed in 2021 to Richard Pierpoint Park.
The story of the Black residents of St. Catharines goes back to the earliest post-colonial history of the community. Richard Pierpoint is one of the community’s earliest settlers. Pierpoint was enslaved for nearly 20 years before regaining his freedom. During the American Revolutionary War, enslaved people who fought on the side of the British were promised freedom in exchange for their military service. This is how Richard Pierpoint came to fight with Butler’s Rangers, a Loyalist unit.