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Tzouhalem’s rugged old cross at a crossroads Should it return? Damage assessment underway as Nature Conservancy seeks public input about cliff-site’s future Peter W. Rusland
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ount Tzouhalem’s battered white cross could grace its cliff-top perch by Christmas, its maker says. But public ideas are also wanted about the cross’s future, the site owner explains. “We don’t know what will happen yet, and it depends on what shape the cross is in,” said Lesley Neilson of the Nature Conservancy of Canada. “We’re interested in hearing from the community about what their wishes are; many people just want to see it go back up — we want to take the pulse of the community.” That pulse includes a damage assessment by cross co-creator Jack Pearce — and his suggestions after examining the cross that was delivered Monday to Providence Farm’s fix-it shop. “It looks like someone wiggled it, and broke it off,” he said Wednesday of the five- by eightfoot steel cross that vanished from view after the valley’s recent wicked wind storm. Pearce suspects vandals loosened the cross, then sent it down the steep mountainside property owned by the Nature Conservancy of Canada. Samaritans rescued the cross, and it was delivered to Providence. “It’s bent pretty good,” Pearce told the News Leader Pictorial. “I’m going to have a welder look at it. I hope to have it up before Christmas, or sometime in the new year.” The cross also holds two bullet-pock marks, plus some graffiti. A Leader reader recently emailed photos showing rusting and cracks at the cross’s cemented base. Pending repairs, and perhaps a new paint job, Pearce hoped to return the cross to where he, Peter Kain, and a Cowichan Tribes youth erected it in the late 1980s. Its concrete base saw its bolts buried in cement for security. “It was fine at Easter; it was wiggly in the concrete (base), but still good and skookum,” he said. “We’d pour a new base and may have to break the old one up.” The now-iconic cross was made by Crofton
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Jack Pearce loads up the old Tzouhalem cross Thursday at Providence Farm to take it to a welding shop for inspection. mill workers who were Knights of Columbus members, he noted. “I was with the forestry service back then. I stashed it in the bush one day, made the base, and we went up with it the next week.” The steel cross replaced a wooden one believed made by locals, then erected on the site in the ‘70s. “The wooden one had been chopped down — they found it at the bottom of the cliff broken up.” He was sad vandals had damaged the rugged
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