George Wade’s monument of John A. Macdonald was created in 1895 and is located at Place du Canada. Monuments like Macdonald’s have recently struggled with different tensions between their intended symbolism and interpretation. There are discussions concerning the role they play and what they represent in today’s society. More pressingly, the vandalism or defiling of these sites reveals a material manifestation of this problematic that signals the irreconcilability of the essentialist version of history they embody and the histories of violence or injustice that are conveniently left out.

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