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• At dawn, his first morning at home

  Blog Post | Posted on March 17, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

• Home at last

  Blog Post | Posted on March 16, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  Accompanied by the skirl of a piper and a crowd of more than a thousand cheering people, mainly students hooting and clanging bells, the striking bronze sculpture of Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock (…) Continue reading

  Tag(s): Bringing the General Home, Brock sculpture, Brock statue, Brock University, General Brock, Sir Isaac Brock
  

• Be at today’s party

  Blog Post | Posted on March 16, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  Great to get back this morning and see these posters up in the corridors. The weather person says today will be a mild 9 degrees when The General pulls up to the (…) Continue reading

• The General has landed

  Blog Post | Posted on March 15, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  He’s home. Late Sunday afternoon, a truck pulled into St. Catharines bearing the double-life-sized bronze sculpture of Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock. The General — all 1.5 metric tons of him — is getting (…) Continue reading

  Tag(s): Bringing the General Home, Brock sculpture, Brock statue, Brock University, General Brock, Sir Isaac Brock
  

• Day 6: Coming home

  Blog Post | Posted on March 15, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  The General was back on the road at sunrise to begin a day of weaving through the web of Michigan highways and making his way to a border crossing into Canada. Sunday (…) Continue reading

• Dodging those pesky overpasses

  Blog Post | Posted on March 15, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  DEFIANCE, Ohio — Rather than take a direct route toward a Canada-US border crossing, The General has been getting off the big US highways to check out towns like Napoleon, Ohio; Fort Wayne, (…) Continue reading

  Tag(s): Bringing the General Home, Brock sculpture, Brock statue, Brock University, Sir Isaac Brock
  

• Day 5: into the Great Lakes basin

  Blog Post | Posted on March 14, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  Heading toward Davenport, Iowa this morning, then on to Chicago and points east. After that we’ll go through the upper reach of Indiana, but then have to do a bit of strategic (…) Continue reading

  Tag(s): Bringing the General Home, Brock sculpture, Brock statue, General Brock, Sir Isaac Brock
  

• Rolling into Iowa, a General revealed

  Blog Post | Posted on March 14, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  DES MOINES, Iowa — With 1,500 kilometres to go, The General is so excited about getting to his namesake university that he took his tarp off Friday, just to get ready for the party. (…) Continue reading

• Day 4: half way home

  Blog Post | Posted on March 13, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  Think Nebraska and it’s likely one of the following come to mind (a) corn; (b) college football (they seem to perennially be in one bowl game or another); (c) the Springsteen album; (…) Continue reading

  Tag(s): Bringing the General Home, Brock sculpture, Brock statue, General Brock, Sir Isaac Brock
  

• Love it or leave it

  Blog Post | Posted on March 13, 2015 by Kevin Cavanagh

  There’s something about American culture that Canadians — heck, people all over the world — find absolutely compelling. The USA is Canada’s biggest and most important ally, and not just because of (…) Continue reading

  Tag(s): American culture, Bringing the General Home, Brock sculpture, Brock statue, Sir Isaac Brock