‘The wave she touches symbolizes the wave of social change that came for Canadian women in the storm of war’ A sculptor from Sudbury has unveiled his latest life-sized bronze statue in honour of the first woman to work as a wireless radio operator.
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A Canadian trailblazer, Fern Blodgett Sunde was the first woman to work as a wireless radio operator at sea, serving aboard an Allied merchant ship during the Battle of the Atlantic.
Tyler Fauvelle creates life-sized bronze for Town’s centennial SUDBURY, Ontario – A new bronze monument unveiled at the site of Kirkland Lake’s first operating gold mine commemorates the prospectors who were at the heart of the Town’s founding story.
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SUDBURY, Ontario – The Rainbow Routes Association and Sudbury-based artist Tyler Fauvelle today unveiled a family-friendly sculpture on the New Sudbury Trail. The larger-than-life artwork was sculpted in clay, then cold-cast in a specially-formulated medium at the artist’s studio. The artwork is located near water, on the 3 km trail.
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On November 11th, millions will gather at cenotaphs in cities and towns across Canada, and in many other countries around the world. This is to reflect upon the sacrifices of so many men and women who fought for freedom in modern wars. Most of these monuments were erected after the First World War, and some
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SUDBURY, Ontario – After an overturned canoe pointed to tragedy, Tom Thomson’s body was found on July 8, 1917, in Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park. To this day, no one knows what happened to one of Canada’s greatest painters. This summer, the 100th anniversary of Thomson’s death, Sudbury-based sculptor Tyler Fauvelle presents “Into the Wind”, an
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NAUGHTON, ONTARIO – A bronze monument commemorating Charles Henry Byce, Canada’s most highly-decorated Indigenous soldier of the Second World War, was unveiled at the Royal Canadian Legion, in the Chapleau community where Byce was born in 1916. The bronze and granite monument, created by Sudbury sculptor Tyler Fauvelle (www.tylerfauvelle.ca), celebrates Byce’s extreme bravery and leadership.
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One hundred years after Francis Pegahmagabow received his first Military Medal, his family and community joined First Nation, military and other dignitaries on National Aboriginal Day to celebrate the unveiling of the first monument erected in Pegahmagabow’s honour. The life-sized bronze monument, created by Sudbury-based sculptor Tyler Fauvelle (www.tylerfauvelle.ca), is situated on the Georgian Bay
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SUDBURY, Ontario – The bronze sculpture honouring one of Canada’s greatest folk/country artists, Stompin’ Tom Connors, found a home today. The life-sized bronze, commissioned by the Stompin’ Tom Connors Commemorative Committee, was unveiled at the Sudbury Community Arena in downtown Sudbury.
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A monument commemorating Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree activist from Attawapiskat First Nation, was unveiled earlier this month at the New Liskeard waterfront. Koostachin led the struggle for a new school in Attawapiskat, and was nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize.
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