Hume Park in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, is named after Fred Hume, the city’s mayor between 1933 and 1942.
As mayor of New Westminster, Fred Hume was instrumental in instigating the development of the green space alongside the Brunette River, then called Brunette Park, for recreational use.
Hume later moved to West Vancouver and was elected mayor of the city of Vancouver from 1951 to 1958. During the early 1960s, he owned the Vancouver Canucks, then a minor league ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League, and predecessor to the present-day Vancouver Canucks NHL team.
