Strong Arm of the Law
**Sculpture of Sheriff Israel Umbach

Sculptor: Shane Repka. Spruce Grove, AB, 1997

This is Stony Plain’s first sculpture. It is made from scrap metal and bronze, measures six feet, and weighs approximately 400 lbs. Israel Umbach, Stony Plain’s first sheriff and overseer, set a Canadian precedent in 1907 when he forced the Canadian Northern Railway Company to pay their outstanding taxes by chaining the locomotive to the tracks. This incident is also depicted in the mural “Strong Arm of the Law.”