View of the Legislative grounds from Broadway
River View
When these bison arrived it was quickly apparent that they should have been placed before the floor was completed. Placing these statues weighing in at 2 and a 1/2 tons each would damage the new flooring and it was thought they would not be used.
They had however been delivered in the midst of a Manitoba winter and a solution to the problem quickly became apparent. Workers flooded the entry with water and allowed it to freeze, they then placed each bison on a slab of ice taken from the nearby Assiniboine River and simply slid them into place. All they had to do after that was to melt away the ice leaving the bison perfectly positioned without a single scratch to mar the newly finished marble surface of the floor.
