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The Reflection Garden - A
Millennium Project of CFUW Guelph
CFUW Guelph dedicated our
millennium project, The Reflection Garden, on August 16, 2000, as part
of the ceremonies of CFUW's national Annual General Meeting, held that
year in Guelph. This Reflection Garden is a physical symbol of our
opposition to violence, and is dedicated to the fourteen engineering
students who lost their lives in a tragic and unforgettable act of
violence against women at the École Polytechnique in Monreal in
December 1989.
The Garden, designed by Guelph landscape architect Wendy Shearer, consists of two large, slightly curved wrought iron screens made up of seven flower stems each. The buds on the top of the stems symbolize the lives of the 14 women, which were about to bloom, The buds will nvever open, just as the fourteen young women were never able to develop to their full potential. The Reflection Garden is located in Guelph at the confluence of the Speed and Eramosa Rivers and will provide an aarea where one can refect on many things, including the significant losses to our community which are caused by violence. |
Sketch
Photo of one of the two screens
