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It is believed the memorial was doused with paint earlier this month, but the City of Edmonton was only made aware Wednesday morning. In a statement to Postmedia, Edmonton Police Service spokesman Scott Pattison said the hotel hadn’t notified police of the vandalism.
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This is the second time the Downtown plaque has been vandalized within the last year and also adds to the recent rash of vandalism on statues commemorating historical figures. Just Tuesday, the statue of Emily Murphy in Emily Murphy Park was found splashed with red paint with the word “racist” written across it. The Edmonton Arts Council had the statue cleaned within two hours with a $1,200 price tag. About a month ago, a statue of Winston Churchill near city hall was defaced
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The statue in Emily Murphy Park was discovered vandalized with red paint, the word ‘racist’ also written in red, Tuesday, weeks after the downtown statue of Sir Winston Churchill was slopped with red paint.
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The Edmonton Arts Council had the Emily Murphy statue cleaned within two hours at a cost of roughly $1,200. The council also cleaned up Churchill last month.
It was in August of 1927 that Emily Murphy invited four women Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards to her house in Garneau. There, they drafted and signed a letter to the governor general of Canada, asking the Supreme Court to rule on whether women could legally be appointed to the Canadian Senate.
EDMONTON The statue of Emily Murphy in Edmonton has been cleaned after being covered in red paint and having the word “racist” painted over the plaque. The paint was discovered Monday at the statue of the namesake for Emily Murphy Park in Edmonton’s river valley. The park is located near Emily Murphy Park Road and Groat Road. “Vandalism solves nothing,” said Andre Corbould, the city manager, in a statement. “It destroys property, it destroys the hard work of the artist who created the monument or statue and it causes greater anger and frustration. “ Emily Murphy was the first woman magistrate in the British Empire and one of the Famous Five, a group of Alberta suffragists behind a landmark legal case in 1929.
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The statue in Emily Murphy Park was discovered vandalized with red paint, the word ‘racist’ also written in red, on Tuesday, weeks after the downtown statue of Sir Winston Churchill was slopped with red paint.
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The Edmonton Arts Council had the Emily Murphy statue cleaned within two hours at a cost of roughly $1,200. The council also cleaned up the Churchill statue last month.
It was in August of 1927 that Emily Murphy invited four women Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards to her house in Garneau. There, they drafted and signed a letter to the governor general of Canada, asking the Supreme Court to rule on whether women could legally be appointed to the Canadian Senate.