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Confederation Park is getting some upgrades to mark its 50th anniversary, which coincides with Canada’s 150th next year.

Created in 1967 to mark Canada’s Centennial, three time capsules were buried when the park was opened in 1967, and the capsules will be opened 50 years later on Aug. 7, 2017.

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“I was there at the opening at Confederation Park in 1967 and was there when they installed the time capsule and it was all very exciting,” Councillor Druh Farrell said.

“Canada was growing up, and 50 years later it’s exciting to think that I’ll be there again.”

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Once known as “the North Hill Coulee,” Confederation Park is more than 160 hectares, with approximately eight hectares of wetlands.

“That park was a slough,” Farrell recalls. “It’s beautiful, but it was previously a slough and it turned into a jewel.”

Lighting, pathway and seating improvements are underway in the park. Farrell said some of the funding for the $1.1 -million revitalization came from the Enmax Parks Legacy series of projects, with the remainder from the city’s Public Art Policy and playground life-cycle operating budget.