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History
Hawthorne Park was planned to be built on April 6th 1987, and built in between 1987 and 1993. On November 25th, 1991, the Surrey-Guildford Rotary Club presented a $20,000 cheque to Hawthorne Park, in honor of having the park named as '''"Hawthorne Rotary Park."  On February 24th, 1992, Alderman Schrenk (Collaborating with Surrey Council) requested the following Notice of Motion be considered when full council is present: that Hawthorne Park should be renamed Hawthorne Rotary Park. ''' The Park Department's goal was to make sure that people in all ages were allowed to associate with the park.

School Background Information
The park sits beside two schools, Mary Jane Shannon and Guildford Park Secondary. Both schools were made before the park was created, Mary Jane Shannon was built in 1958 (School District 36 (Surrey) 10682-144 Street Surrey, B.C. V3T 4W1), Mary Jane Shannon Jr. Secondary was built in 1974 (10707-146 Street, Surrey, BC V3R 1T5), and renamed as Guildford Park Secondary. It takes around eleven minutes to walk from Mary Jane Shannon/Guildford Park Secondary to Hawthorne Park, while it only takes two minutes to drive from the schools to the park.

Park Information
"In the summer of 1991, the Club conducted a tree-planting project where approximately 400 bushes and shrubs were planted in the Park." In the year 2004, the infamous Gazebo was built, while in the year 2005-2006, a new playground was added. The water park was updated, as well a new garden was built, on the east side of the playground.

Bon Accord Background Information
Bon Accord Creek is a creek that connects the Fraser river to the pond in Hawthorne Park. The creek goes through a park named after itself, then connects to the pond in Hawthorne park. WM.Ross John Hasselwood and Robert Halloway Pre-empted land up the Fraser at Bon Accord, where steam boats were used to carry wood to Fort Langley and Yale nudge. Bon Accord after had its name changed to Port Mann after Donald Mann, CO-builder of Canadian Northern Railway.