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Victoria to consider returning Sir John A Macdonald statue to historical society

Victoria to consider returning Sir John A Macdonald statue to historical society

CTV
Saturday, September 17, 2022 5:18 AM GMT

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. The statue was first erected in the early 1980s and was taken down in 2018 by the city as an intended step towards reconciliation.

The statue was first erected in the early 1980s and was taken down in 2018 by the city as an intended step towards reconciliation.

"We made a decision early on before others across the country, for many reasons, but I don't regret it at all," said Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps on Friday.

"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.

Macdonald was the first prime minister of Canada and was the MP for Victoria from 1878 to 1882. He was also a key figure in establishing Canada's residential school system, which separated Indigenous children from their families and still has profound impacts on Indigenous people today.

On Sunday, the Sir John A. Macdonald Historical Society sent a letter to Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps requesting that the statue, which has been in storage since 2018, be sent back to the society and delivered to a storage site in Ladner, B.C.

It was the culmination of several months of discussion between the society, the city and local First Nations.

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.

"It became apparent to us that the statue itself was an obstacle to healing and reconciliation between the City of Victoria and the First Nations in the local area," said Chris Considine, a member of the Sir John A. Macdonald Historical Society.

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