Use Your Imagination

I learned in high school history from a very smart teacher the importance of looking at “Primary Sources” when evaluating historical events. If you look at letters and documents written by Sir John A., you find a racist, mean-spirited person who showed contempt for Indigenous people. Even taken in context for its time, this attitude is not something to celebrate by displaying a statue on Main Street Picton.

Try to imagine you are an Indigenous person who has to drive by that statue every day on the way to work.

By the way, I would like to ask why almost all statues are of men? Aren’t there any famous women to commemorate?

Lastly, I think having a person who originally helped bring the statue to Picton on the committee to recommend its fate is just wrong.