Stump Woman - Zuckerberg Island - Castlegar, BC
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N 49° 18.953 W 117° 39.353
11U E 452331 N 5462778
This locally well known carving, surrounded by a picket fence, is sheltered by a shingle roof near Zuckerberg House on Zuckerberg Island, now a Heritage Park.
Waymark Code: WMG57Z
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 01/14/2013
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Born in 1880 in Estonia, Alexander Zuckerberg moved to Canada about 1923 and to Castlegar in 1930. He initially leased the island and built his home there, then bought what became known as Zuckerberg Island on August 6th, 1951. The house is a very interesting building, with strong Russian architectural influence. The house and outbuildings have been restored by the Castlegar Rotary Club as a heritage building and the entire island is now a park administered by The Castlegar and District Heritage Society.
Alexander spent many hours at wood carving and many of his carvings lined the pathways on the island. Stump Woman, an unusual sculpture of a seated woman carved from a stump is one of Zuckerberg’s best known works.