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Montreal formally inaugurated Warren-Allmand Park on Friday, renaming the previous Somerled Park subsequent to Royal Vale College after the long-time MP for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
Allmand’s widow, Rosemarie Nolan Allmand, and son Patrick helped unveil the park’s new signal with borough mayor Gracia Kasoki Katahwa.
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![The new sign at Warren Allmand Park in N.D.G.](https://i0.wp.com/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/montrealgazette/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/0506-city-allmand-2.jpg?resize=1000%2C750&ssl=1)
Allmand, who died in 2016, represented the N.D.G. using from 1965 to 1997 and served as solicitor normal of Canada beneath Pierre Trudeau, throughout which he abolished the demise penalty within the nation.
He additionally served 4 years as a Montreal metropolis councillor.
![Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough mayor Gracia Kasoki Katahwa, left, and the widow of Warren Allmand, Rosemarie Nolan Allmand, in front of the plaque following the inauguration.](https://i0.wp.com/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/montrealgazette/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/0506-city-allmand-3.jpg?resize=1000%2C750&ssl=1)
![Former MP Marlene Jennings, who succeeded Warren Allmand as MP for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce riding, speaks to the crowd during the ceremony.](https://i0.wp.com/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/montrealgazette/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/0506-city-allmand-1.jpg?resize=1000%2C750&ssl=1)
![Warren Allmand in front of Montreal city hall in 2008, when he was a city councillor.](https://i0.wp.com/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/montrealgazette/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/vda08-0508-allmand-03_94019203.jpg?resize=1000%2C750&ssl=1)
Warren-Allmand Park is bordered by Somerled, Hingston and Hampton Aves. It features a youngsters’s playground, 12 tennis courts, a picnic space and washrooms.