Ken and Lori Bennett’s walks in Nanaimo are hitting differently now, with every click of her replacement metal cane since her treasured wooden cane, a priceless family heirloom, was stolen from the Nanaimo couple on Tuesday.

“I felt very violated, and a little choked. I’m getting choked up talking about it because it did mean a lot. It was something that my mom gave to Lori, and it meant a lot that she would give that to her,” Ken Bennett, told CHEK News on Thursday.

“A lot of people that passed us by said ‘Oh what a lovely cane. Where did you get, then we told them the story’,” said Ken’s wife, Lori Bennett.

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According to Ken Bennett, the brown cane that appears to have wood woven down its full length, was specially made by a carver 55-years-ago for his mother, B

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