She’s no longer on the throne, but Queen Elizabeth II will continue to preside over hockey games in North Bay and Sudbury.
Of the dozens of portraits that hang in courthouses, schools, legion halls and municipal offices across northeastern Ontario, the two most prominent look down on the rinks in the North Bay Memorial Gardens and the Sudbury Arena.
Both cities say the pictures will stay put while they decide what to do next, including the possibility of a new portrait of King Charles III.
Soon after her coronation and not long after the arena opened, Sudbury artist Bruno Cavallo was commissioned in 1953 to paint
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