For the last two to three years leading Canadian art auction houses in Vancouver (Heffel), Calgary (Hodgins), Toronto (Heffel, Joyner, Sotheby's, Waddingtons), and Montreal (Bonham's), have been selling what they claim were original bronze busts and statues by Canada's leading artists of the Victorian and Edwardian eras: Louis-Philippe Hébert, Alfred Laliberté, R. Tait McKenzie, Hamilton MacCarthy, and Marc Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté.
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The statue in front of the Memorial Park Library was erected in 1924 by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire to honour the soldiers who fought in WWI. The equestrian statue was erected as a tribute to all Albertans who fought in the Second Boer War.
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