VANCOUVER—Vancouver-based supporters of the Hong Kong protests say they are amazed to see a “Lennon wall” of sticky notes appear on the Gastown Steam Clock located in downtown Vancouver — but the person responsible for the sticky notes remain a mystery.

Images of the wall appeared on social media Friday, and on Saturday morning, the brightly coloured sticky notes were still up on the steam clock, bearing messages such as “Freedom HK” and “Save Hong Kong.” Several tourists posing for photos with the famous clock paused to examine the messages before moving on.

The first “Lennon wall” started in Prague in the 1980s, after people wrote messages of dissent against the Communist government on a public wall featuring a painting of musician John Lennon. Taking inspiration from Prague, similar walls went up during the 2014 protests in Hong Kong, made up of sticky-note messages.

The walls have sprung up once again in Hong Kong since the start of the protests against a highly-controversial extradition bill that would allow criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China.

Abraham Wong, a Vancouver realtor who is originally from Hong Kong, said he went to see the wall for himself in Gastown after seeing an image of it posted on social media.

“To me, it’s fabulous,” he said. “It is the bravery and the courage of the Hong Kongers, that inspired the Hong Kongers in Vancouver to do something like that.”

While Wong said that he doesn’t know who put up the wall, he is happy to see it on the streets of Vancouver.

“I’m in appreciation. It means their message has resonated so far, that different parts of the world have done the same thing to show support of the Hong Kong protesters.”

In June, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets for what was likely Hong Kong’s largest protest in more than a decade.

With files from the Associated Press.

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