Comments on: The Man who Blew up the Courthouse Lion https://evelazarus.com/the-man-who-blew-up-the-courthouse-lion/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:16:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dan Barson https://evelazarus.com/the-man-who-blew-up-the-courthouse-lion/#comment-59292 Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:01:44 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11656#comment-59292 Great story. Thank you. I will also check out that lion next time I go to the VAG.

]]> By: Anonymous https://evelazarus.com/the-man-who-blew-up-the-courthouse-lion/#comment-18112 Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:15:51 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11656#comment-18112 In reply to Robert Hawkins.

He had two daughters in Canada.

]]> By: James https://evelazarus.com/the-man-who-blew-up-the-courthouse-lion/#comment-17779 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 08:00:21 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11656#comment-17779 Who knew! The guests at the Dev hid in the basement? Hopefully where the hooch was kept for courage.
Keep em coming Eve.

]]> By: Gord McCaw https://evelazarus.com/the-man-who-blew-up-the-courthouse-lion/#comment-17762 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 06:28:20 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11656#comment-17762 Next time I am by the VAG I’ll be sure to go have a look at the reconstituted lion. Thanks for another great story…

]]> By: Sandra https://evelazarus.com/the-man-who-blew-up-the-courthouse-lion/#comment-17646 Sun, 08 Aug 2021 18:50:25 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11656#comment-17646 I love finding out stuff like this that I never knew! But I know the anti-German sentiment was high because even my father didn’t have kind words after World War II. Look how our Japanese were treated at that time as well! 😢 There is a lot of Canadian history that I can’t be proud about especially with all the focus and findings now on the Indigenous Residential Schools.

]]> By: LG https://evelazarus.com/the-man-who-blew-up-the-courthouse-lion/#comment-17474 Sun, 08 Aug 2021 01:33:06 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11656#comment-17474 Thank you Eve! Love your posts.

]]> By: Gwendolyne Michaud https://evelazarus.com/the-man-who-blew-up-the-courthouse-lion/#comment-17467 Sun, 08 Aug 2021 00:51:33 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11656#comment-17467 Thank you for the history I was not aware of this happening. I have a picture (somewhere) of my mother sitting on one of the lions taken on her wedding night 1940-41

]]> By: Robert Hawkins https://evelazarus.com/the-man-who-blew-up-the-courthouse-lion/#comment-17453 Sat, 07 Aug 2021 23:45:57 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11656#comment-17453 I wonder why he never returned to Germany if he was so dissatisfied with Canada?

]]> By: Laura Anderson https://evelazarus.com/the-man-who-blew-up-the-courthouse-lion/#comment-17429 Sat, 07 Aug 2021 21:30:02 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11656#comment-17429 As always, Eve, a great story – thanks!

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