ORILLIA - A handful of Quebec municipalities and organizations are offering to take a controversial statue of Samuel de Champlain from an Ontario city in Simcoe County.
ORILLIA - A handful of Quebec municipalities and organizations are offering to take a controversial statue of Samuel de Champlain from an Ontario city in Simcoe County.
The nearly four-metre-tall bronze monument of the 17th Century explorer and founder of Quebec City was removed from a park in Orillia, Ont., and placed in storage in 2017 following debate over its colonial imagery.
La Société historique de Montréal invite la Ville à acquérir l’œuvre à son effigie récemment déboulonnée en Ontario.
A city in Quebec has reinstalled its monument to Samuel de Champlain in a new location almost a decade after it was originally…
"The vast majority of Orillians want the monument returned. They’ve done surveys. They’ve done all sorts of reach outs," the…
Champlain was lauded for his close relationship with First Nations, yet his statue was taken down in the name of 'reconciliation'
Removing Orillia monument is counterproductive to reconciliation
La trame inchangée des rues permet de retrouver son chemin dans l’ancienne capitale du Bas-Canada.
