Queen Victoria statue remains in storage
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This article was published 29/06/2024 (438 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
WINNIPEG — The Queen Victoria statue that stood in front of the Manitoba legislature before it was toppled and decapitated on July 1, 2021, by demonstrators protesting the discovery of potential gravesites at a B.C., residential school, remains in storage.
“It’s going to remain there till we’re moving forward with our future plans,” Premier Wab Kinew said earlier this week. “It’s something we’ll make public next year.”
Crowds pulled down the massive statue from its base using ropes. The head was removed and later plucked from the Assiniboine River.
The former Progressive Conservative government said last year that the statue was beyond repair and rejected the idea of replicating it due to an estimated cost of more than $500,000.
Historians have said the wrecked statue of the colonial queen is an important part of Manitoba’s story and should be put on display somewhere in the appropriate historical context.
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