Tree topples, unseating Mary at St. Patrick Basilica

Monday’s punishing storm winds appear to have felled part of a majestic maple that in turn levelled the column supporting a statue of the Virgin Mary outside St. Patrick Basilica.
Mary looked serene through photographer Wayne Cuddington’s lens, but she’s surrounded by pieces of her toppled pedestal and caged by broken branches on the lawn of the basilica at the corner of Kent and Nepean streets.
There’s no word on the age of the statue or tree – a neighbour estimate