This park is named in memory of Sergeant Shawn Allen Eades.
Shawn Allen Eades was born on 26 March 1975 in Hamilton, completing his high school education in Portage La Prairie, MB. At the nage of 17, he enrolled in 26th Field Artillery Regiment in Portage but on 9 June 1994 joined the Regular Force as a Field Engineer. He completed his engineer training at The Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering in Chilliwack before being posted to 1 Combat Engineer Regiment. He accompanied the Regiment in the move to its new home in Edmonton where he was employed in various capacities in the field troops. Shawn completed numerous field engineer, leadership, explosive ordnance disposal and counter-IED courses while at 1 CER and deployed on four operational tours. In 1999, he was a member of Task Force Kosovo in Pristina, Serbia followed by his first tour in Afghanistan. In his two subsequent deployments to Kandahar, he took on leadership positions, first as an Improvised Explosive Device Disposal (IEDD) section commander and as a recce NCO during his last tour. It is during this latter deployment that Sergeant Shawn Eades was killed on 20 August 2008, along with two colleagues, when a roadside bomb detonated near their armoured vehicle on a notoriously dangerous section of a highway in Zharey District, south east of Kandahar. Sergeant Shawn Allen Eades is buried at the National Military Cemetery at Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa.
