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Obelisk Encore : The Man Who Fixed Canada's Oldest National Monument
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Obelisk Encore : The Man Who Fixed Canada's Oldest National Monument
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In 1827, Governor General Dalhousie organized a fund-raising drive to built a monument to the memories of General Wolfe and General Montcalm. The monument (an obelisk), completed in 1828, was 42-1/2 feet tall, mounted on a 13-foot high stone subcase and a seven-foot high sarcophagus. However, by 1867, a vertical crack was evident in the obelisk, but no public money was available to fix it. In 1869, as the crack was getting larger and out of fear that the whole monument would collapse, Quebec City resident Henry Fry took it upon himself to have it repaired. The British-born Fry (1826-1896) was a ship-broker, ship owner, commission merchant and President of the Quebec Board of Trade. He hired Quebec master builders Thomas and Henry Hatch to dismantle, repair and re-erect the obelisk, at a cost of $1,000 (roughly $100,000 in today's money). The monument stands to this day near Quebec City's Chateau Frontenac.
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Quebec Heritage News
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Vol. 5
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no. 6
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Novemver-December 2009
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6-8
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en
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Fry, John. “Obelisk Encore : The Man Who Fixed Canada’s Oldest National Monument.” Quebec Heritage News, December 2009. http://qahn.org/files/quebecanglophoneheritagenetwork/documents/qhn/qhn_nov-dec_2009_final_reduced.pdf.
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