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The engineers had arranged for a photo shoot of the Cannon with a Varsity photographer, yet when they arrived at the meeting a group of U.C. students snatched the Cannon and fled in a car. In order to recover it, the CA Paul La Prairie assembled a large group of engineers in front of U.C. while some SkuleTMmen dressed as construction workers entered the building through a side door. These engineers set up proper construction barricades around the main staircase, and carefully removed the U.C. gargoyle from the newel post on the stairway. When word got out that the wooden gargoyle was missing, the CA was summoned to Dean Young and President Sidney Smith, to whom he assured that it would be returned safely in exchange for the SkuleTM Cannon. A truce was then arranged with U.C. to exchange the Cannon for the gargoyle on front campus. The Cannon was handed back, and the engineers presented the artsmen with a bag of sawdust, supposedly the remains of the gargoyle. While this happened, the gargoyle was being placed back in its post by the SkuleTMmen.

[[Image:Oct26-49.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Results of Skule Auction (Varsity, Oct. 26, 1949)]]

[[Image:Oct26-1-49.png|200px|right|thumb|Skule cannon stolen (Varsity, Oct. 26, 1949)]]

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[[Image:Oct28-1-49.jpg|200px|right|thumb|UC claims they will fire Cannon at float parade (Varsity, Oct. 28, 1949)]]

[[Image:Oct31-49.png|200px|right|thumb|Accounts of the float parade (Varsity, Oct. 31, 1949)]]

===1950: First official firing of the Mark II Cannon===