Tag: 2020-07 Monuments Project
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John A. MacDonald vs. George Washington
Though not contemporaries, they are both recognized as Fathers of a nation: George Washington for those United States and John A. MacDonald as Canada’s Father of Confederation. Like any historical figure, each of these men…
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Who is Cancelling Culture?
In an article in The Hub, “Parks Canada chooses identity politics over giving Sir John A. Macdonald his due“, Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and Professor of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan…
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Removing Monuments
While monuments are not history, they can and should be held accountable to history. Monuments that perpetuate harmful myths and that portray conquest and oppression as acts of valour require honest reckoning, conceptual dismantling, and…
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The Role of Monuments in Colonization
Monuments offer interpretations of the past and play an outsize role in shaping historical narratives and shared memory. In the service of remembering the preferred narratives of their creators, they also can erase, deny, or…
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Colonialism
Colonization is a process that replaces indigenous peoples’ culture with those of the colonizer and puts in place institutions and mechanisms to perpetuate it. Colonization is not simply an act of taking over physical territory,…
