Historical information

The Sunshine Gardens became officially known as the H.V. McKay Memorial Gardens in 1953, when the Sunshine Council formally adopted the name to commemorate H.V. McKay, who had died in 1926.

That’s the moment the gardens shifted from simply being “the Sunshine Gardens” or “the factory gardens” to a named memorial landscape.

Significance

In 1991, a conservation strategy plan was prepared to protect the garden's historical significance. The garden was first planted in 1909.

Physical description

Digital scans of black and white negatives

Inscriptions & markings

Photograph of sign and trees H.V. McKay Memorial Gardens Anderson Road Sunshine