Article by CBC News, February 22, 2018. "(We had to) get rid of the pieces that don't belong in the collection, the pieces that aren't significant, that aren't important." A comment from the Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa. The bench is from the former Union Station or Conference Centre in Ottawa. As I have said before I was employed at the Conference Centre during the early 1980's. I still remember the Grand Hall, the murals, a tunnel that connected the railway station to the Chateau Laurier, the furniture..Shame on you, whoever put a $4,000 dollar pricetag on my country's history; whoever removed this bench in the first place. Somebody had to profit from this misappropriation of cultural property.
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