Zak Vescera, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter THE TYEE
Every year on Jan. 5, mourners queue to lay a rose on a plaque in downtown Vancouver.
The memorial honours four carpenters who fell to their deaths 42 years ago while working on the Bentall IV tower.
But the ceremony memorializes all construction workers who die on the job in B.C., with each flower representing a construction worker who didn’t come home.
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