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Use Your Imagination

A statue is not part of history. So removing it does not rewrite history.

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.

John A. monument

It is a monument that remembers an important leader who grew up in Glenora, became a barrister, and then went on to be a leader in the establishment of this great country. John A. was a driving force for the Canada project, and was an enlightened man of his time. The monument should retain its place of pride in front of the library. It attracts many, and while Residential Schools are now seen as unjustified, when he participated in their establishment they were voluntary and introduced with the support of many indigenous leaders. We should not be tearing down monuments…

Honouring Genocide and White Supremacy is Wrong

Statues are not history lessons. They are monuments that honour and memorialize an individual or an event.History lessons are taught in families, schools and communities, and should not be conflated with statues.John A. MacDonald was Canada's first Prime Minister and he both endorsed and instituted the genocide of the Indigenous Nations of what is now known as Canada. He was an avid white supremist who supported the enslavement and ownership of black and brown-skinned human beings by white-skinned human beings. He was not a good or honourable man, and he should not hold a place of honour in this or…

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