A bronze statue of a key Acadian figure in New Brunswick erected more than a century ago has been placed back on its base, after vandals apparently pushed it off last month.
The Village of Memramcook said in a statement in August that it was “horrified” to see the statue of Père Camille Lefebrve, which stands in the centre of the village, on the ground.
“The people of Memramcook are very attached to Père Lefebvre,” Mayor Maxime O. Bourgeois said in a social media post.
“His statue is an important heritage symbol for us and l’Acadie would not be as we known it without his dedication to French-language education in the 1860s. We hope that light…
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