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Two wooden sculptures that long stood outside St. Martha\u2019s Regional Hospital in Antigonish, N.S., have found a new home at the Antigonish Heritage Museum.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One statue depicts a graduate of St. Martha\u2019s School of Nursing, which operated from 1911 to 1995, while the other represents a Sister of St. Martha.<\/p>\n
The move comes as the hospital, founded by the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Martha in 1906, prepares to become fully independent<\/a> on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n Beginning Oct. 1, it will be known as Antigonish Memorial Regional Hospital<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cBecause of the important connection between our community and both the nursing school and the Sisters of Saint Martha that are represented in the statues, we wanted to make sure that they ended up with a good home,\u201d Barry MacKenzie, curator of the Antigonish Heritage Museum, said Sunday.<\/p>\n Chainsaw artist Albert Deveau, who died in 2022, carved the sculptures in the late 1990s using trunks from elm trees cut down to prevent the spread of Dutch elm disease.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n They are among the few remaining sculptures made by Deveau after many others, including pieces in Truro, Saint John<\/a> and Edmundston, N.B.<\/a>, rotted from exposure to the elements.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThese just aren\u2019t random wooden statues of people that just kind of add to the character of the building \u2026 they\u2019re really representative of a body of work by the New Brunswick artist, I think, that is quickly disappearing,\u201d said MacKenzie.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s up to us now to make sure that these two statues, in addition to the two that we already have \u2026 get the kind of TLC that they need so that we can actually preserve them for the long term.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE TOP STORIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-912043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}