I was both shocked and outraged yesterday to learn that the hand-painted mural painted by Glen Frear of an old CN train that adorned the side of the former Scotia Bank building, is scheduled to be destroyed Monday. It seems that in a secretive deal the building was sold to the McBride Community Forest, and they have arranged for a daycare to rent/lease (who knows?) part of the building, and so windows will be cut through the walls on the side of the the building, destroying one of McBride’s landmark historical murals.
The McBride Community Forest Corp supposedly operates under the auspices of McBride Village Council, but as far as I know, even some of the Village Council members didn’t know about the sale or the destruction of the mural. I am very surprised about the Community Forest being able to take over the building. Where did they get that much money? To my mind, owning buildings doesn’t seem to be part of the Community Forest mandate. I sure don’t like all of the secretive deals that go on in our little village’s government.
At any rate, it seems that this artistic mural which is featured in McBride’s tourism Information is doomed to disappear without people even knowing about it. Too Bad.
You can view my paintings at: davidmarchant2.ca
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