Alexander Wilson (25 May 1953 – 26 October 1993) was a writer, teacher, landscape designer, and community activist. Born in Ottawa, Illinois, Wilson grew up in Oakland, California. In 1977, he moved to Canada, where he lived and worked in Toronto, Ontario. A plaque in the park includes a quoted passage from The Culture of Nature: "We must build landscapes that heal, connect and empower, that make intelligible our relations with each other and the natural world."