Halifax Caving To Protesters Who Want Statue Of Cornwallis Removed
16th July 2017
The City of Halifax, Nova Scotia covered up a statue of its founder, General Edward Cornwallis, Saturday in response to demands by protesters who want the monument removed. With only 150 protesters on-scene, city crews draped a black cloth over the statue as a “sign of good faith” that it will eventually be removed.
The protesters object to commemorating Cornwallis, a key figure in the British response to the American Revolution, who founded Halifax in 1749. They say he was a progenitor of “genocide” because he waged war against the Mi’kmaq tribe that lived in what is now Nova Scotia.
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