Spanning the Creek is set in Confederation Park.
Confederation Park is a smaller park in the city’s northwest quadrant, south of Nose Hill Park (the setting for Knows the Hills). It was previously known as the North Hill Coulee. It was renamed and opened as a park as part of the 100th-anniversary celebration of Canada’s Confederation (the joining of the provinces to form Canada) in 1967. Flags for each of the provinces can be found at the entrance of the park.
The park offers summer and winter fun, and the author both biked and tobogganed there growing up and completed an orienteering course (a map exercise that was sort of a precursor to geocaching). There used to be a small fort for children to play in, and there is now a playground that incorporates a different fort structure. The adjacent Confederation golf course offers cross-country skiing during the winter.
Every year, Confederation Park also hosts the magical Lions Club Festival of Lights Christmas display. This drive-by exhibition consists of over 650,000 bulbs on 25,000 strings and almost 4 km of power cords.
