More than two years ago, Daniel Ho noticed something amiss while walking to work one morning.

The office manager of the Vancouver Chinatown Merchants Association saw that many of the plaques decorating the majestic Millennium Gate linking the historic district and downtown were gone.

The plates bear the names of donors to the commemorative archway that has served as the starting point of the Chinese New Year since 2002.

The metal plaques were believed to have been stripped away to be sold as scrap metal.

One of the people Ho informed on the same day he discovered the loss on June 5, 2014 was Kelly Ip, former vice president of the Vancouver Chinatown Millennium Society, a now defunct group that championed the landmark’s construction.

Ip immediately contacted the City of Vancouver, owner of the Millennium Gate. A year later last June, Ip expressed his disappointment in an interview with the Georgia Straight that the city has not replaced the plaques.

After almost two years, the missing plates will be replaced finally.

According to Ho, new plaques are ready to be installed by a sign company contracted by the city.

“Everything is fine right now,” Ho told the Straight in a phone interview Monday (November 3).

Since the replacement panels are made of plastic, Ho doesn’t see them getting stolen by looters.