The Amsdale businessmen were motivated by fears surrounding the impending 1997 handover of Hong Kong from British to Chinese sovereignty, and their $500,000 investment in the park was a way to enter Canada through an immigration program centred on entrepreneurship.

[2] Notably, CFB Cornwallis, the nearby Canadian Forces base, was decommissioned in 1995, markedly reducing the area population and potential for visitors to the park formerly generated by regularly scheduled recruit graduation ceremonies.

Another advertisement for expressions of interest in the park was issued in 1996, and the same group of Annapolis Valley businesses, calling themselves the Hanse Society (after the Hanseatic League), made a second bid for which there was no competition.

[5] The manager Gregg Gaul stated that Upper Clements generated 200 direct and 200 indirect jobs, and that it drives the local economy.

[8] In 2021 the sale and lease of the land was overturned by the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, an application brought forth by the newly elected council.

[9] The park's mascot was called Clementine, joined by her friends Clarence the train engineer and Captain Kid Ryerson the pirate.