The Robert Burns Memorial is an outdoor memorial and statue of Scottish poet Robert Burns, located in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[1]
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Artist | George Anderson Lawson |
Year | 1928 (1928) |
Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Coordinates | 49°17′50″N 123°08′05″W |
Located at the southern approach to the park near Coal Harbour, upon a tall light-coloured stone plinth, a standing Robert Burns facing the south towards the southern entrance. A plaque appears on the front with his name, followed clockwise of reliefs of scenes from his poems, To a Mountain Daisy (1786), The Cotter's Saturday Night (1785), and Tam O'Shanter (1790).
The sculpture was dedicated on August 25, 1928, becoming the first statue erected in Vancouver.[2]
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