A unique bid to recognize the contribution women have made to building Canada took a big step forward in Halifax on Friday.
The Halifax Women’s History Society announced that a monument to honour women volunteers during the Second World War will be built, thanks largely to a $100,000 corporate donation from CN.
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The society’s chairwoman, Janet Guildford, says the group’s fundraising drive is now past the one-third mark, which means that a call for proposals will be issued to sculptors as early as next week.
Guildford says the statue will be the first of its kind in Halifax to depict real women.
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Of the 280 statues in the city, less than a dozen show women – and virtually all of them are mythical figures, fairies and nymphs.
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The plan is to have the sculpture installed on the Halifax waterfront – beside the Port Authority building – in time for Canada’s 150th birthday on July 1, 2017.
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