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Residents have probably been wondering when steps of Town Hall in Battleford were going to be usable again. Last week, council approved a tender for CAP Masonry to undertake the work for a quoted amount of $40,000 plus GST. The repair will include filling a void beneath the stone steps. The original purpose of the void seems to be a mystery. The steps are made of Tyndall stone, a limestone geologically referred to as the Upper Mottled Limestone of the Red River Formation of the Ordovician System. It is quarried in Manitoba. The decorative random mottling characteristic in Tyndall stone is unique among building limestone, containing the fossils of marine animals from 450 million years ago. Tyndall stone has been used on some of the most famous buildings in Canada, and it is prominently featured not only at Town Hall in Battleford, but on the Battleford Post Office and the Court of Queen's Bench building.Photo by Jayne Foster
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