Stanley Cup monument to be installed on Sparks Street

A large monument commemorating the donation of the Stanley Cup in 1892 by Lord Stanley of Preston will be installed at the east end of the Sparks Street Mall.

The monument, near the Elgin Street intersection, will hopefully be ready by 2017, with plans to run a design contest next year, according to Paul Kitchen, president of the Lord Stanley Memorial Monument Inc., who made the announcement Monday.

The monument is predicted to cost between $7-million and $8-million and will displace a statue of a female bear eating a fish.