This Document has been put together
To share History, culture and Heritage with the Park visitors.
Dedicated to the Park Staff, Summer Students and the Visitors who come to Bellevue Park.
By Alfreda Trudeau
Summer Student, 2003
Bellevue Park is an important site in the Sault Ste. Marie area. This document may allow visitors to care for the park, enjoy what it has to offer, understand how the park came to be and what is all in it. The park does not only become a place where people take their children or dogs to enjoy but respect how it came to be. It gives the community some ownership of the cultural and natural heritage that they enjoy so much.
Bellevue Park is a place where individuals, families, or groups visit to take a walk and enjoy the scenery. The Park provides a variety for the visitors who visit the park for its leisure, adventure and opportunities for the naturalist, which includes:
Col. John Prince
Born in March 1796 in England. He moved to Canada at the age of 37 and lived in Southern Ontario. He moved to Sault Ste. Marie when he was 64 and lived in the house shown below on the island where he is buried. He moved to become the first judge in the Algoma District. Along with him came his son, who became a surveyor in what is known today as Prince Township. His wife did not move with him to northern Ontario.
The Canadian flag is situated on five locations within the park.
Those five located are:
1. Topsail Island
2. Prince Island
3. Greenhouse area
4. Amphitheatre wall
5. Amphitheatre
Roof
When entering Prince Island from the east there you will find a plaque dedicated to him.
On the small hill just meters away from the plaque is the actual site where Col. John Prince is resting.
Greenhouse, Garage and
Office.
Horticulture StaffMike Rooney,
Jennifer Migwans, & Jeff Marshall.
What happens here?
· Seeds are planted,
· Flowers are planted,
· Greenhouse maintained
· Equipment stored
· Riding pooper scooper
· Water truck
· Etc…
Is provided for community and organization use.
Picnic tables, garbage cans, & recycle bins available for the fund- raiser, the bridal shower, & family get-togethers that are booked at city hall.
Playground AreaJungle gyms, to slides for all the kids to Play on. A walkway for strollers and benches for parents to sit and watch their children at play.
New addition in August 2003 for individuals in wheel chairs. A basket swing with a mat provided below. In addition two types of tic-tac-toe
Train donated by Algoma steel. Plaque on the north west
side of the train
Top Sail Island
Topsail Island is where people love to take their dogs for a walk.
Many individuals enjoy fishing in the east side of the island for pike. Pike
love to live in the weeded area of the water.
The Algoma Sail Club is located at the eastern edge of the park.
The lighthouse was removed. The foundation is the only remaining piece left of the light house.
Animals at Bellevue Park
There were a large number of animals housed at the park zoo, such as; buffalo, cougars, deer, bears, otters, & fox. The zoo closed a number of years ago, but the fountain and water trough's remain and are now surrounded by flowers and shrubbery - a favourite spot for wedding and special occasion photos.
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1 to 30mm long I-----------------------------------------------I (sometimes 100mm)
Helps speed up the nutrients in soil (Help the soil become a vitamin for the plants)
They are scavengers of soil and fresh water. Eat the garbage
Found in still or slow moving water
Breath through their gills
Found in ponds, lakes, rivers
Consume several times their body weight; worms, centipedes, fungus and plants.
Ducks and other water birds enjoy eating pond snails.
Are also scavengers?
Some can be found in ponds and most places except Africa
They are primarily nocturnal, hide during the day.
Are meat and plant eaters?
Found close to the water during their adult stage and eat a large number of insects, including mosquitoes.
They are the fighter plans of the insect world. Similar to a helicopter.
Beautiful in colour
Do not live in cold regions of the world
Males live up to 2 weeks and females up to 4 weeks
Breath with their tails
Females only suck blood from its prey
Carrier of diseases; West Nile, malaria, etc.
Their entire life cycle is 7 to 16 days
Two rows of dots
Eat milkweed milk so they are poisonous to their prey.
Viceroy Butterfly
Similar to the Monarch but have an additional vertical line through its lower wings. Most have only one row of dots.
Named after the Queen lady because they kept her garden free from other insects.
Northern Pike
People fish from the shore and catch the pike.
Its head is long and duck looking
Small rectangular dots on its sides
Toad
Painted Turtle
Common in water
They eat plants and meat
Usually gentle and non-aggressive, and are home pets
Hatch their young in the summer
Three known in the park
1. Holely – hole on the outer shell (shell is known as the carapace)
2. Flip - back carapace on both sides are flipped upwards
3. Ampu – One leg missing
![[Photo of Eastern Painted Turtle]](bellevueparkinterpretationprogram_files/image022.jpg)
Canada Goose
Mallard
Ring-Billed Gull
Pileated Woodpecker
Hairy Wood Pecker
American Crow
Red-Winged Blackbird
Cormorant
Purple Martin
Eastern Chipmunk
Gray Squirrel
TRACKS & SIGNS
Domestic Dogs
Domestic Cat
Eastern Chipmunk
Gray Squirrel
Black Flies
Mosquitoes
Rabies
Ticks
Biting Midges
TREE AND SHRUB SPECIES IN THE PARK
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Flowers grown at the Bellevue Park Greenhouses are used at many locations throughout the city....
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