City staff have returned a 120-year old bronze plaque to its rightful place a month after it was pried off a rock monument at the entrance to Victoria Park on Blenheim Road.
The city confirmed someone found the plaque in the forest nearby and staff has since secured it to the granite slab where it had been since 1901.
Residents noticed the plaque missing in early June and alerted the city and police. It was one of four large commemorative plaques stolen around the same time in Galt and Preston, including the plaque at the Parkhill dam honouring the deaths of Mark Gage and Cst. Dave Nicholson in 1998.
Other plaques that were taken, presumably to be melted down and sold for scrap, included one marking the location of a time capsule at the Dalton Court Parkette in Queen's Square and a heritage plaque marking the site of the Otto Klotz schoolhouse on Queenston Road.
The city's director of operations for infrastructure services, Michael Hausser, said the city has ordered replacement plaques for Parkhill Dam and Dalton Court.
He expects to receive them in September, and they will be installed once they arrive.
In the meantime, an anonymous woodworker crafted a temporary memorial plaque for the Parkhill dam monument.
