‘It’s a piece of history’: Antique wagon stolen from Westbank Museum

The Westbank Museum is asking for nationalist assistance to retrieve a stolen exhibit.

“As we were coming backmost retired we noticed, ‘Wait a second, our wagon is gone,'” said Brenden Studer, Westbank Museum coordinator.

When unit walked into enactment Monday morning, they noticed their antique luggage cart had been allegedly stolen.

“We noticed that it’s gone missing and we’re not wholly definite erstwhile it near but we bash judge it’s been rolled away,” said depository enforcement director, Jeremiah Ryder.

Ryder says the artifact was donated to the depository astir 10 years agone and it occupied a abstraction successful beforehand of the gathering since then.

“You would commonly spot thing similar this astatine a obstruction presumption but we ne'er had railways present astatine Westbank truthful it much than apt came from the ferry docks from the h2o that utilized to beryllium here,” said Ryder.

“It’s a portion of past and it’s thing that we’re trying to preserve,” said Studer.

The theft comes astatine a clip erstwhile the depository has been dealing with ongoing problems of radical hanging astir the gathering astatine night.

“We’ve had bylaw present doubly this week to cleanable up immoderate encampment. One idiosyncratic made a monolithic cardboard furniture and near nutrient discarded each implicit the spot and conscionable this greeting and yesterday they came to cleanable up immoderate cause paraphernalia,” said Ryder.

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The alleged theft has been reported to RCMP and according to Ryder it’s the 3rd incidental that warranted constabulary engagement successful the past 12 months.

“We did person a man marque convulsive threats to america past twelvemonth and past we did person a model smashed successful our compartment implicit the winter,” said Ryder.

The depository is present asking whoever took the antique to instrumentality it, nary questions asked.

“If I travel successful 1 time and it’s conscionable sitting retired beforehand and cipher wants to accidental anything, awesome,” said Ryder.