2009

21 November 2009 Losing Another One to the West The statue of Lord Mount Stephen, back in 2002 when it greeted visitors to Windsor Station.     Montreal Quebec - Excerpts from our blog about Montreal:  Heritage activists kicked up a fuss in 2007 when CP put Windsor Station up for sale and removed the statue of founding president Lord Mount Stephen that once greeted visitors.   He was headed to CP's Calgary HQ.   But Heritage Montreal's Dinu Bumbaru, who insists the statue, cast in 1913, is an integral part of the historic station, said he was told by CP that it didn't leave town.   Talk of reviving Windsor Station as a transit hub spurred Metropolitan News to investigate.   "The statue of Lord Mount Stephen has been moved from Montreal and recently has found a new home in the CP Pavilion in Calgary", CP spokesperson Michel Spenard told us Monday. "CP's position, supported by the opinion of federal authorities, is that the statue is part of the railway's corporate history and that the company is within its rights to move the statue to a new location."   George Stephen was born in poverty in Scotland, coming to Montreal in 1850 at age 21.   The carpenter's son went on to help found CP, bankroll the Royal Victoria Hospital and build a lavish Drummond St. mansion that now houses the Mount Stephen Club.   Heritage Montreal isn't amused by the loss of the statue.   But commenters took the loss in stride.   Two Cents (pseudonym):  Jeez... even the English statues are leaving Quebec!   Andy Riga.

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