01-05-2015, 03:39 PM
Maybe it will end up being like Toronto's moose project from a few years ago with Prime Ministers sprinkled around the City or Region. Since WLU already has a Laurier statue, and KCI has the Mackenzie King Statue, the project is 13% complete!
I'm also reminded about the history of the Kitchener Cenotaph. Somewhere, I read a story about how the private donors who funded the monument kept a party of workmen in waiting on a side street, out of view of City Hall, while they sought approval from Council (or at least someone in City Hall) to place it in the City Hall Square. At some point the workmen descended on the site and built it, almost without anyone noticing before it was too late.
I'm also reminded about the history of the Kitchener Cenotaph. Somewhere, I read a story about how the private donors who funded the monument kept a party of workmen in waiting on a side street, out of view of City Hall, while they sought approval from Council (or at least someone in City Hall) to place it in the City Hall Square. At some point the workmen descended on the site and built it, almost without anyone noticing before it was too late.