The social lives of statues
![Canada's National War Memorial, Confederation Sq.](https://www.janeswalkottawa.ca/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBa2dLIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--12ec79aa9f0905056cf7adab3d2a4a6731a2b661/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RW5KbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5bWFYUmJCMmtCeURBPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoidmFyaWF0aW9uIn19--d9825999bc3a7e489c77b6b6a8e48e3a542a802c/NationalCenotaph.jpg?locale=en)
Canada's National War Memorial, Confederation Sq.
Photo: Canada's National War Memorial, Confederation Square
In this tour we will walk from the National War Memorial down Elgin Street, ending at "Enclave": the Women's Monument in Minto Park. Along this stretch of Elgin Street we will visit many well-known and more obscure monuments—twelve in total. I will discuss the history of the monuments as well as moments in their lives: moments of protest, defacement, and the politics of annual monument rituals.