Sunken Gardens – c. 1940

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• the park looks much more lush with the pond that it does these day it looks like you could actually walk to the edge of the water as opposed to the ledge the pond had in later years nice shot of the high school too

• How many high school students had this beautiful scene to look at each day on their walk to and from school? No wonder us KCI grads loved our years there!

• So strange without the mature trees!

• I have a vague recollection from my early childhood in the late forties/early fifties of Jackson Park looking like this, though I can't be sure. I am sure that the sunken gardens was my favourite spot in Windsor when I was a child. My Mother would take me there on the bus (Tec-Drouillard) and we would walk around looking at fish and flowers and trees - and the astrolabium. A lovely memory from another time that I had lost until this picture. Thank you!

• It's been said my great grandfather, Leonard Sanders, was a horticulturist and had a lot to do with the gardens. As a kid in the 50's I'd take my wagon to Branch Lumber, later to be Angileris, and the cutters would give a wagonful of scraps that I'd make into sailboats and float them in the pond until a gardener would chase us out. The pond was full of goldfish and frogs that sat on lilypads.

• It really was a huge bonus to have this park right next to school.

  I wonder when/why those bell tower looking things went missing off the front of the third floor?

  I'll never forget going in the basement though. That was really cool. A few tunnels, and there were all sorts of holes in the furnace ductwork from the old ROTC range down there lol

• My dad taught art at Kennedy for many years and previously taught at Harry Guppy which later became Commerce High School and then CCH on Tecumseh Rd.