Hyack Square
Hyack Square is one of the oldest urban squares in the city of New Westminster. It was first established in 1860 and has continued to be at the centre of the region's transportation network since that time. At various points in history, it has been adjacent to a CPR railway station, a BC Electric Railway Company's interurban station, and now the New Westminster SkyTrain station. The square was upgraded in 2009 - as you see it today - to celebrate the city's 150th anniversary, including new paving, lighting, and amphitheatre stage with public art. In 2014, the Wait for Me, Daddy sculpture was installed.
"Wait for Me, Daddy"
Wait for Me, Daddy is a sculpture based on a famous World War II era image from The Province newspaper. On October 1, 1940, photographer Claude P. Dettloff was setting up to capture a column of Canadian soldiers marching down Eighth Street, at the intersection of Columbia Street (present-day Hyack Square), as they headed to war. While Dettloff was getting ready to take the picture, five-year-old Warren "Whitey" Bernard ran from his mother's grasp to reach his father Private Jack Bernard's outstretched hand. The poignant image Dettloff captured (below) was picked up all over the world.
Logging requirements:
To log this cache, you need to answer two questions as well as include a photo with your Found It log. Please send your answers through the message centre (but email will also be accepted). Any logs not meeting the following requirements will be deleted within seven days:
Questions:
- Surrounding the raised brick base around the sculpture is a large ring of engraved steel plates. How many steel plate segments comprise the ring?
- Look for the engraved bricks at the base of the scuplture. Start at the steel plate with the name, artists names, and installation date laid into the bricks on the Columbia Street side. Orient yourself by standing at the rectangular plate and looking south towards the sculpture. Count 8 rows of bricks from the top of this plate towards the scuplture and go to the last brick with writing on it to your right towards the old CPR station. The brick should be within 1 row of the drain grate. What is written on this brick?
- Special circumstances - in the very rare event that the ground is covered in snow and the bricks aren't visible then you can send me the text written on the back of the sculpture instead. In this case include another photo with your log that clearly shows the snow on the ground.
Photo:
- Post a photo of yourself with your caching name on a piece of paper standing with the sculpture in the background - you don't need to show your face
- Alternately, you can post a photo of a unique object such as your GPSr or keys with the sculpture in the background
- Bonus points for including photos that reenact the scene with fellow cachers or random strangers!
- Example of an acceptable photo:
Virtual Rewards 2.0 - 2019 - 2021
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