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[Victoria Watcher]

On Monday evening, Charlottetown city council voted to remove a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, from a downtown corner. By 7 a.m. Tuesday, it was gone.

 

Council voted unanimously to remove the statue just weeks after voting to accept recommendations from local First Nations people for changes to it.

 

The statue became the subject of controversy about a year ago because of Macdonald's involvement in setting up the residential school system. That controversy rose to a new level of horror last weekend, following the discovery of an estimated 215 children at an unmarked burial site on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.

 

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...moved-1.6048245

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 01 June 2021 - 07:44 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

The statue of Sir John A. Macdonald that stands in a park near downtown Kingston, Ont., will come down — at least temporarily. 

 

Kingston city council voted 12-1 after a long meeting Wednesday evening to move the statue of Canada's first prime minister from City Park to nearby Cataraqui Cemetery, where the Father of Confederation is buried.

 

"I don't know that I've ever encountered an issue where the two sides are so far apart," Mayor Bryan Paterson said at the virtual meeting. 

 

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...etery-1.6068857

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 June 2021 - 04:19 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

The statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in downtown Hamilton has been covered in fabric from head to toe and wrapped tightly with a red rope.

 

Shrouding the statue was done during a gathering held at Gore Park on Sunday, as Indigenous community members shared their frustration with the pace at which the city is responding to requests that it be removed.

 

"For Indigenous folks that have to walk by him every day, I think their lives are more valuable than a hunk of metal," said Jordan Carrier, a Plains Cree woman and Hamilton resident who helped organize the event.

 

"In light of the recent events, we're over waiting for the city to take their time to do these things. We want action," she said, pointing to preliminary results from a survey of the grounds at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, which indicate the remains of more than 200 children could be buried at the site.

 

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...enous-1.6073166

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 June 2021 - 03:11 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald was toppled in a downtown Hamilton park on Saturday after hundreds of people attended a rally and march calling for its removal.

 

The Hamilton Indigenous Unity rally, organized by members of the local Indigenous community, took place on the front steps of city hall in front of the Hamilton sign.

 

Organizers said the purpose of the rally was to show opposition to a July 8 council decision to keep the statue of Canada's first prime minister in Gore Park, which is located on King Street East near James Street South. Council voted 12-3 not to remove the statue.

 

After the rally, demonstrators marched to Gore Park, where a rope was tied around the neck of the statue and pulled. The statue then fell to the ground.

 

In a letter issued before the rally, organizers said the council's decision was "deeply disturbing" to Indigenous people.

 

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...ilton-1.6141279

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 14 August 2021 - 12:52 PM.

[Nparker]

#itsnotreconcilliationitsvengeance

[spanky123]

#somuchfordemocracy

[rjag]

Mob rule....if democracy doesnt work.... seems like a stable way of life. Anyone care to guess which part of the political spectrum these rocket scientists lean towards? 

[Victoria Watcher]

Workers have removed Virginia’s biggest statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from its towering stone base and cut it into two pieces, ending the monument’s 131-year reign embodying this city’s mythology as the former capital of the Confederacy.


https://www.washingt...5799_story.html




look I really don’t care if they removed the statue. but what other reforms or good works has that mob done to actually help?

I’m all in favour of Canada removing Geddy A. Lee statues in solidarity.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 08 September 2021 - 05:50 PM.

[mbjj]

They should have left the horse, Traveller. He did nothing wrong. 

[LJ]

I'm in favour of Canada removing the PET statues.

[Victoria Watcher]

Oak Bay:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appleton took the opportunity of the special day to get started on reworking wording to most accurately reflect Oak Bay’s history.

 

He issued a notice of motion that council ask staff to start a review of historical monuments and plaques on district land, to ensure they include language that is respectful of Indigenous peoples and furthers the work of reconciliation.

 

Appleton’s motion specifically noted the 1925 municipal plaque in Walbran Park should be reviewed and considered for replacement. A federal plaque in the park is also under review.

 

Couns. Eric Zhelka and Esther Paterson said they wouldn’t support the motion as worded. Zhelka cited concerns with staff just moving forward without council input. While appreciating the spirit of the motion, Paterson suggested more engagement with local First Nations is required.

 

 

 

 

https://www.vicnews....ented-in-parks/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 November 2021 - 09:37 AM.

[spanky123]

^ Can't fix potholes but lots of time for staff to run around the community looking for signs and plaques.

[Nparker]

 

...He issued a notice of motion that council ask staff to start a review of historical monuments and plaques on district land, to ensure they include language that is respectful of Indigenous peoples...

As long as the review results in language that is respectful of non-indigenous peoples as well. i.e. no use of racist terms like 'settler'. 

[todd]

^ Can't fix potholes but lots of time for staff to run around the community looking for signs and plaques.

And heritage conservation areas: “..one of Oak Bay’s oldest designed subdivisions. The Prospect Neighbourhood has significant cultural and historical value as it contains 11 of Oak Bay’s 30 designated heritage homes, one of which was built for Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, second son of the last surviving Father of Confederation…”
https://www.oakbayne...-neighbourhood/

[Nparker]

...one of which was built for Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, second son of the last surviving Father of Confederation…”..

Just another old, white, male settler. Tear it down.

[Victoria Watcher]

Hopefully they never come after the Gordie Tupper statue outside CHEK TV.

[todd]

Hopefully they never come after the Gordie Tupper statue outside CHEK TV.

I don’t think they have a statue of him, sometimes I just tap the side of the TV to get it going again

[Victoria Watcher]

I don’t think they have a statue of him, sometimes I just tap the side of the TV to get it going again

 

[Midnightly]

did they ever find the queens head??

[Nparker]

did they ever find the queens head??

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