One Hundred Links Equals One Chain | Part 3
Transcript
My name is Stephen Cruise and I'm the sculpture who created the work "One Hundred Links One Chain". And the piece actually is comprised of two elements with a link that runs along the walkway in between the two. What we're looking at right now is the marker and a pony. Now, an element that was a requirement for this sculpture was that it referenced David Gibson, David Gibson House which is located just to the north. So, in doing research I came across a number of early turn-of-the-century 1900s photographs of the Gibson family living in this house. And one of them had a pony and the name of the horse was "Logo". So I picked that out as an element that should be included here. So what you're looking at is a size-as, an accurate-to-scale rendition of what this pony was.
And the significance of David Gibson is that he lived back in the 1800s and he became Ontario's first land surveyor. So, at this site I wanted to identify with his land surveying occupation. What's in the middle, you can see, is a stake. It's in bronze plate. Attached to that is a representation of 10 stainless steel links. They are representative of what constitutes a measuring device that was used back then that was comprised of a hundred links. And you pulled that, you put a stake in the ground, you pulled it, you put another stake in the ground. And this measured out at 66 feet. Something that was news to me at the time was learning that most of our streets are exactly one chain wide, which is 66 feet.
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