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Protected: Wrecking-Ball Revisionism: How Picton, Ontario Turned its Back on Canadian History

Jerry Amernic
July 20, 2026
Cast in metal and set atop concrete, the life expectancy of a statue ought to be far longer than that of the human being it represents. Not anymore. In 2015 Picton, Ontario held a party to celebrate the installation of a life-sized sculpture of Canada’s first prime minister on its Main Street. Less than six year later, Sir John A. Macdonald’s statue was gone, packed up amid a moral panic over Canadian history. Author Jerry Amernic, who was involved in recent efforts to bring the statue back, takes readers behind the scenes to reveal how the town turned its back so quickly on the man it once celebrated as a favourite son. And Amernic outlines the long and painstaking process required to bring common sense back to the public recognition of Canada’s greatest heroes.
Canadian Heritage

Protected: Wrecking-Ball Revisionism: How Picton, Ontario Turned its Back on Canadian History

Jerry Amernic
July 20, 2026
Cast in metal and set atop concrete, the life expectancy of a statue ought to be far longer than that of the human being it represents. Not anymore. In 2015 Picton, Ontario held a party to celebrate the installation of a life-sized sculpture of Canada’s first prime minister on its Main Street. Less than six year later, Sir John A. Macdonald’s statue was gone, packed up amid a moral panic over Canadian history. Author Jerry Amernic, who was involved in recent efforts to bring the statue back, takes readers behind the scenes to reveal how the town turned its back so quickly on the man it once celebrated as a favourite son. And Amernic outlines the long and painstaking process required to bring common sense back to the public recognition of Canada’s greatest heroes.
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