Four years after the City of Victoria removed a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald from city hall, councillors will vote on whether it should return the statue to the historical society that originally donated it, at the society's request.
Four years after the City of Victoria removed a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald from city hall, councillors will vote on whether it should return the statue to the historical society that originally donated it, at the society's request.
"I think we did it in a respectful way and it's really allowed a conversation to begin to take place in our region and across the country about the complex way in which we have to understand historical figures," she said. The society says its intention in the 1980s was to commemorate Macdonald as a founder of Canada and Member of Parliament for the city. But recent discoveries have caused people across Canada to reckon with the country's past.
The historical society is not actively looking to place the statue anywhere else, though it says if it does get re-erected in the future, it will add a plaque clearly outlining"the fullest possible educational and contextual information concerning the individual portrayed, his time, his policies, and their consequences."
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