The name was made after the area ceased to be associated with the earlier names of Uglieland Fairground and Uglyland.[1] The fairground had operated between 1922 and 1936 and was opened as the Pioneer Reserve by governor James Mitchell in 1942.[2]
As the park adjoins Short Street on its south side it has also been known as part of the Short Street Precinct[3] and has also been the site of archaeological digs.[4]
In 2021 the park was utilised by homeless people, and their presence created significant reactions from local government and state politicians in the months before the Western Australian 2021 state election.[5][6]
Notes
↑ "PIONEER RESERVE". The West Australian. 56 (16, 789). Western Australia. 25 April 1940. p.6. Retrieved 21 December 2016– via National Library of Australia.
↑ McIlroy, Jack; National Estate Grants Program (Australia) (1989), Historical archaeological assessment of Parry St car park and the Short St precinct/Pioneer Park Reserve Fremantle, W.A, J. McIlroy], ISBN978-0-7316-9850-9
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