Dorchester Square
Downtown park of sculpted monuments, once a cholera-era cemetery, ringed by Corinthian columns and bronze figures.
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This guide to Dorchester Square in Montreal centers on the bronze-and-stone monument George Edward Wade built in 1895 to honor Sir John Alexander Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, and on what happened to it during a 2020 protest. It follows the twelve Corinthian columns, seven bronze boys, and four stone lions that still ring the now-empty pedestal, and the three-year city process that decided Macdonald's fate. Listen for how the square's other monument, a statue of Robert Burns unveiled in 1930, offers a gentler counterpoint just a short walk west.
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