Statue of Cornwallis in Halifax, NS. Andrew Vaughan / The Canadian Press
The statue will be moved into storage temporarily until council decides how to move forward.
After a lengthy debate, Halifax’s regional council has voted to temporarily take down the Edward Cornwallis statue.
On Tuesday, council passed a motion from HRM staff recommending the statue in Cornwallis Park be taken down immediately.
It will be put in storage while council attempts to revive a stalled committee,approved in October, to assess the use of the city’s controversial founder’s name on municipal property. Read the rest of this entry
A statue of Edward Cornwallis in downtown Halifax. Cornwallis, a governor of Nova Scotia, was a British military officer who founded Halifax in 1749. The same year, he issued the so-called scalping proclamation, offering a cash bounty to anyone who killed a Mi’kmaq person.
Panel to discuss the statue of man who offered a bounty for Mi’kmaq scalps has yet to be formed, chiefs say
By Marina von Stackelberg, CBC News, Jan 27, 2018
The Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs is calling on Halifax regional council to remove the statue of Edward Cornwallis immediately, after a process to discuss the statue’s future became stalled. Read the rest of this entry
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