[PHOTO] Alexander Wood on Church, 2012 and 2014 and 2016

Nov 15, 2016 13:09

On the weekend, I took a photo of the statue of Alexander Wood that lies on the northwest corner of Church and Maitland.


is one of several orphan pictures of mine taken during Pride.

I remembered that I had taken a photo of the statue in 2014.




In October 2012, during Nuit Blanche, I took some night-time photos of the statue. Below is one of the photos, and what I wrote at the time.




On the night of Nuit Blanche, I went to the northwestern corner of Church and Alexander--just two blocks south of the fabled intersection of Church and Wellesley--to take photos of sculptor Del Newbigging's statue of Scottish-born merchant Alexander Wood, unveiled in 2005. Located next to the compass painted on the sidewalk at the same corner, Newbigging's statue of Wood has become something of a community landmark, quite literally a touchstone--apparently some locals rub the statue for good luck before dates.

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