Edward Cornwallis statue in Halifax ought to stay

The monument of the city’s controversial founder can be used as an educational tool for taking a closer look at past myths that have shaped our nation’s history.

Many have called for this statue of Halifax founder Edward Cornwallis in a city park to be removed because of the British officer's treatment of Indigenous peoples in the 1700s.Photograph courtesy of David Kirsch

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

July 26, 2017

OTTAWA—There has been a lot of controversy recently in Halifax over a statue of Edward Cornwallis, the city’s founder. On Canada Day, a crowd of Mi’kmaq people and their supporters gathered at the base of the statue to decry Cornwallis as a perpetrator of genocide against Indigenous peoples. ...

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