Exploring Theme: "Outdated Prime Minister Biographies"

Four years after a statue of Canada’s first prime minister was boarded up to protect it from vandals, a committee of MPPs gathering input on its future has been schooled by a First Nations equity consultant. Toronto Star: The warning was frank.    Four years after a Queen’s Park statue of founding prime minister Sir...

Statue was damaged during anti-racism protest in 2020 CBC News: Originally posted Aug. 30 – Montreal’s toppled John A. Macdonald statue won’t be put back on its pedestal in Place du Canada, the city’s executive committee decided on Wednesday.  The statue’s head fell off when protesters hauled it down in 2020 during a demonstration calling...

An 1894 statue of the country’s founding prime minister has been boarded up since 2020 following several incidents of vandalism. Toronto Star:What to do with Sir John A. Macdonald? An 1894 statue of the country’s founding prime minister that towers over the top of University Avenue on the grounds of the legislature has been boarded...

Toronto Star – The effort required to find the new bio on the library’s website has advocates asking why the federal government made it difficult to locate the updated text that outlines the racist policies of Canada’s first prime minister…But unlike the previous biography, the new text can’t be easily found directly through Google. The...

Library and Archives Canada – With respect to the Canadian Confederation and Prime Minister biography pages, this content was immediately placed in an archived section of the LAC website as soon as issues were raised in October 2020. Each page was clearly marked with a disclaimer at the top indicating that it did not correspond...

Toronto Star – Library and Archives Canada’s website excludes important information from the biographies of some of Canada’s first Prime Ministers. John A MacDonald’s profile does not mention the words “Indigenous” or “residential schools” or “Chinese head tax”. As the main architect of the now infamous Indian Residential School system, the discriminatory policies of the...