“Wait for Me, Daddy” Sculpture, located at the bottom of 8th street in Hyack, is one of the most visited landmarks in New Westminster. The sculpture was taken from the picture that was widely circulated during WW2. The photo captured a 5-years old kid running out from the grasp of his mother to go after his soldier father, who was in a march for his war assignment. It was taken by a Canadian photographer Claude P. Dettloff. The boy in the picture is Warren “Whitney” Bernard, who was running after his father.
In 2014 the city of New Westminster commissioned a bronze statue to commemorate the story …
