More than 30 years after it was erected at a downtown intersection, a monument honouring people who helped shape London will be under a tent for several more weeks amid ongoing repairs.

The People and the City monument, built in 1991, sits on a median on Wellington Street immediately north of Queens Avenue. Its unique base construction – similar to a jigsaw puzzle – makes the repairs more difficult, one city official said.

“This is specialty restoration work involving highly precise masonry and artists, and specially carved stones were brought in from Quebec,” Val Morgado, city hall’s senior manager of facilities, wrote in an email reply to Free Press questions.

It was mid-September when city hall announced that repairs were underway, including replacing the limestone base with granite

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