Archive 1997-2016
Standing proudly on the southeast corner of Parliament Hill, Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, glances pensively out at the nation’s capital, glasses in one hand, scattered papers in the other.
The statue of Sir Wilfrid Laurier stands at the corner of Parliament Hill, eternally staring out over a grassy lawn and the road behind it. With one hand at his waist and his eyes looking towards Wellington Street, the figure of Canada’s first francophone prime minister seems to almost survey what he helped create – a vibrant downtown Ottawa.
Sir Galahad is a fictitious character, one of the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.
Terry Fox’s image is immortalized in bronze across the gates of Parliament Hill, forever running towards the west. The plaque beneath his statue, located at the corner of Wellington and Metcalfe streets, reads, “the greatness of the human spirit.”