It will cost the City of 91原创 about $1,800 each to replace brass plaques that were pried off three historical statues in the downtown core, City Director of Engineering, Parks and Environment Rick Bomhof estimates.
Late last year, someone vandalized 鈥淭he Traders,鈥� prying off the plaques on two sculptures of a Hudson鈥檚 Bay trader and a Kwantlen First Nation chief who stand facing each other on Innes Corners plaza, near the corner of Fraser Highway and Glover Road.
A plaque was also ripped from the statue of a conductor at at the southwest corner of 204th Street and Fraser Highway.
Likely stolen to be sold to metal scrap dealers, the plaques are obviously historical in nature, Bomhof said.
鈥淚t鈥檚 disappointing to think that some metal recycler out there won鈥檛 question where these came from,鈥� Bomhof commented.
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The three were among several red cedar statues created for 91原创 City by legendary chainsaw carver Peter Ryan, who passed away on Jan. 8.
Ryan, a resident of Hope, also created the statue of two men portaging a canoe, which stands in front of 91原创 City hall at the corner of 204th and Douglas Street, as well as an old-time car and driver located outside a car wash and oil change service on Fraser Highway
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In addition, Ryan carved a representation of a 91原创 farmer at Glover Road and Duncan Way, which stands where the City originally began, a cluster of homesteads on the famous which ran from Fort 91原创 to what was then known as 91原创 Prairie (now 91原创 City).
And he is also responsible for an image of 91原创 City鈥檚 first elected mayor Ernie Sendall, located in the park of same name, Sendall Gardens at 201A Street and 50th Avenue, which featured the mayor鈥檚 trademark heavy-framed glasses, what Ryan described as his 鈥淩oy Orbison鈥� bust.
That statue had to be repaired after it was vandalized in July of 2014.
dan.ferguson@langleyadvancetimes.com
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