The City of Montreal says it received’t exchange a toppled statue of Canada’s first prime minister in a downtown park.
The metropolis’s govt committee says it would as an alternative associate with a neighborhood establishment to show the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in a special location with extra contextual info for onlookers.
Erected in 1895, the statue was incessantly the goal of vandalism earlier than protesters tore it down from its pedestal in downtown Montreal’s Place du Canada in August 2020.
Macdonald championed the assimilation of Indigenous individuals and is taken into account to be the architect of the residential faculty system.
The statue remained in storage whereas the town thought of its future.
The now-empty pedestal, in the meantime, will stay in Place du Canada as a reminder of the statue’s historical past.
