N.B. monument to fallen workers to be revealed this week

Statue to be unveiled on National Day of Mourning, April 28

A monument honouring fallen workers will be revealed in New Brunswick on Thursday, the National Day of Mourning.

The monument will be outside the W. Frank Hatheway Labour Exhibit Centre at the Lily Lake Pavillion in Saint John. It is cast in bronze and depicts workers lifting a beam.

“Two of the figures are ghostly in appearance and represent lives lost on the job,” said WorkSafeNB. “A woman standing on a crate reminds us of unsafe work conditions that still exist today, and the man lifting a post at the end symbolizes the intense labour that went into the building of Saint John. At the end of the beam sits a canary, representing the era when miners used them to test the toxicity of the air in mine shafts.”

Last year there were nine work related fatalities in New Brunswick.

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