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Monument to the Stanley Cup unveiled in Ottawa on Saturday

Monument to the Stanley Cup unveiled in Ottawa on Saturday | iNFOnews.ca
Lord Stanley's Gift Monument is seen on Sparks Street in Ottawa, after it was unveiled on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. The monument marks the 125th anniversary of the Stanley Cup, a trophy awarded to Canada's top-ranking amateur hockey club by Governor General Frederick Arthur Stanley, and later adopted as the championship prize of the National Hockey League. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Original Publication Date: October 29, 2017 1:57AM
Publication Updated: April 24, 2025 9:46PM

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau predicts a monument in Ottawa to the 125th anniversary of the Stanley Cup will become a major attraction in the national capital.

In an interview Saturday on Hockey Night in Canada, Trudeau said the Lord Stanley Gift Monument will be part of what people want to see when they visit Ottawa.

The monument was formally unveiled on Saturday at a ceremony attended by Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and local MP David McGuinty and members of the hockey community.

The federal government provided $2.15 million toward the cost of erecting the monument to the Stanley Cup, which was given in 1892 as a gift by Lord Stanley, Canada's sixth Governor General.

The unveiling also coincides with Canada 150 celebrations and the 100th anniversary of the National Hockey League.

In the Hockey Night in Canada interview that was done in advance of Saturday's unveiling, Trudeau, wearing a No. 4 Jean Beliveau Montreal Canadiens jersey, said few symbols bring Canada together like the Stanley Cup.

"It has a weight of symbolism and strength of binding our country together that very few material symbols do," Trudeau said.

Trudeau also said it would be great if there were more NHL teams in Canada but he added it's not the federal government's role to "push hard" on professional sports.

Trudeau says his 10-year-old son Xavier has started playing hockey and loves it, so the prime minister says he is spending more time in arenas, but he never developed roots in hockey when he as a boy.

"Much more a skiing family than a hockey family, my dad wasn't a big fan of the arenas early in the morning on the weekends," Trudeau joked.

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