Pride flag stolen, pole cut down at Norwich school: OPP

A metal flagpole cut down outside Emily Stowe Public School in Norwich. June 7, 2026. (Source: Jennifer St Pierre)

Provincial police are investigating after a Pride flag was stolen and a metal flagpole was cut down at a school in Norwich.

Members of the Ontario Provincial Police’s Oxford detachment say they were notified June 7, 2026, of the incident at Emily Stowe Public School.

Police allege that at about 10:30 p.m. on June 6, two unknown suspects went onto the property on Jerdon Street, cut down the metal flagpole and removed a recently replaced rainbow Pride flag. The pair then fled toward Stover Street.

The suspects are described as white men in their late teens or early 20s, both with thin builds.

According to police, one was wearing a light-coloured shirt, blue shorts and dark-coloured boots. The other was wearing a light-coloured hat, a black T-shirt and blue pants.

Anyone with information, including surveillance footage from the area, is asked to contact Oxford OPP at 1-888-310-1122.