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When a monument honouring women who were abused and murdered by men was created in Minto Park on Elgin Street 25 years ago, space was left to add more small stones etched with the names of new victims.

But no new stones have been added since 2000.

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That’s partly because the organizing group drifted apart after being forced to remove one name under a legal threat.

But there is also no more room, says Mary Faught, who designed the space. “We didn’t realize that many more people would be killed, I guess,” says Faught. “We never envisioned that we would use (the space) all up, and we did.”

The words inscribed on the Women’s Monument ask people to “envision a world without violence where women are respected and free.”

The message – and the monument – is no less important today, says Faught.

The monument was a “cry out” of anguish after the Montreal Massacre, when 14 women were shot to death at Montreal’s l’ École Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989, says Faught.