. The well-known statue of Queen Victoria outside the Manitoba Legislature appears to have been the target of vandalism. Victoria Park security said they called Waterloo Regional Police at around 10:30 a.m. on Friday about a man who had climbed up the statue. Boris slams Canadian anti-colonial protestors who raged 'tear this b**** down' as they toppled statues of the Queen and Queen Victoria and threw one of Captain Cook in a harbour amid anger at . The statue was similarly vandalized in July and August 2021. It is believed protesters are responsible for splashing cans of red paint on the statue's podium and also vandalized the statue with the words "Land Back". Fri., May 6, 2022 timer 1 min. Queen Victoria statue in Victoria Park vandalized again; Queen Victoria statue in Victoria Park vandalized again. statues representing historical figures have been vandalized across Canada . (Carmen Groleau/CBC) The City of Kitchener . The Victoria Memorial in downtown Montreal (erected in 1872) as well the bronze statue on Sherbrooke Street (erected in. (Carmen Groleau/CBC) The City of Kitchener . An anarchist group posted a statement taking responsibility for the latest painting of the frequent targets. Police said officers responded to Victoria park at approximately 9:05 a.m. and found red paint on the statue of Queen Victoria in Victoria Park on May 5. The statue of Victoria, first unveiled in 1904, was left covered with a Canadian flag, and the words "We were children" were written on it in black marker, referring to children who died in . . Share. Concerning the Queen Victoria statue, the Delhi-Dublin Anti-Colonial Solidarity Brigade wrote on St. Patrick's Day 2019: "The presence of Queen Victoria statues in Montreal are an insult to the self-determination and resistance struggles of oppressed peoples worldwide, including Indigenous nations in North America (Turtle Island) and . The bronze statue of Queen Victoria . The man on the statue was preventing that . The vandalism of these statues is widely thought to be motivated by support for the suffering of Indigenous people at the hands of . The statue of Queen Victoria should either be cleaned up, or be permanently removed from the Kitchener park that bears her name. This statue was cast in Pimlico, London, and was originally installed at the centre of Statue Square in Central, the main business district of Hong Kong, where it was unveiled by then-Governor William Robinson on 28 May 1896, the day officially appointed for the celebration of the seventy-seventh birthday of Queen Victoria. It shouldn't be left covered in the red paint that was thrown on it last week. Victoria police are looking for witnesses and others with information after they said the statue as vandalised around 2:30 p.m. VicPD said as a protest was going on outside the legislature, a group of people moved to the Queen Victoria statue and vandalized it with red paint. Montreal — The Delhi-Dublin Anti-Colonial Solidarity Brigade re-united in Montreal last night on an anti-colonial Saint-Patrick's Day. The statue of Queen Victoria should either be cleaned up, or be permanently removed from the Kitchener park that bears her name. Queen Victoria statue in Victoria Park vandalized again citynews.ca - CityNews Kitchener • 1d Police believe it was vandalized with red paint sometime overnight Read more on citynews.ca Canada Policing Queen Victoria Ontario Kitchener More stories from Canada I Ate At A Vancouver Restaurant That Was Pitch Black The Entire Time Narcity Canada The memorial statue in Queens Gardens had a significant splash of red paint over it yesterday, and the words "Return stolen wealth Charles" and "Uphold Te Tiriti" (uphold the Treaty) were also spray-painted on the statue in red. citynews.ca - CityNews Kitchener • 1d. The vandalism of these statues is widely thought to be motivated by support for the suffering of Indigenous people at the hands of . The following video and communique was originally published on Sub.Media. The Queen Victoria statue has been vandalized in Kitchener's Victoria Park for the third time in less than a year. Victoria police are looking for witnesses and others with information after they said the statue as vandalised around 2:30 p.m. VicPD said as a protest was going on outside the legislature, a group of people moved to the Queen Victoria statue and vandalized it with red paint. The statue of Queen Victoria should either be cleaned up, or be permanently removed from the Kitchener park that bears her name. The vandalism — merely the latest in a sudden and intense trend to have swept the United Kingdom in just a few days — was visited upon a statue and pedestal in Leeds, England, which portrayed the 19th-century female monarch, and was built with allegorical statues depicting peace and industry. The protesters cheered as the statue at. During this event, a Queen Victoria statue was toppled and covered in red paint. A smaller effigy of Queen Elizabeth II was also toppled. Statues of Queen Elizabeth II and her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria were toppled and trashed in Canada during angry protests over the disturbing discovery of hundreds of indigenous. It shouldn't be left covered in the red paint that was thrown on it last week. The Delhi-Dublin Anti-Colonial Solidarity Brigade is claiming responsibility for the incident. The Queen Victoria monument was defaced in June 2020 in the wake of anti-racism protests. Photo by . Winnipeg Police are investigating after protesters felled a statue of Queen Victoria at the Manitoba Legislature on July 1. The vandalism of these statues is widely thought to be motivated by support for the suffering of Indigenous people at the hands of colonizing governments. KITCHENER — The City of Kitchener does not plan to clean red paint off of Victoria Park's Queen Victoria statue after it was splashed with paint for the . Published May 5, 2022 10:06 a.m. PDT. Statue vandalized a year prior . In advance of colonial 'Victoria Day' holiday, two Queen Victoria statues are (again) vandalized in Montreal Racist and imperialist legacy of the British Monarchy denounced (On the morning of May. During the protests in the UK the people in England did not spare queen Victoria's statue in Leeds and it was sprayed with graffiti. A group calling itself the Delhi-Dublin. A prominent statue of Queen Victoria has been torn down by protesters in Canada as anger grows over the deaths of indigenous children at residential schools. ADVERTISEMENT. The City of Kitchener takes vandalism seriously. A group gathered at the. Following a "largely peaceful" demonstration, a "small number" of people vandalized the statue, Chief Danny Smyth said. In a Friday release, Victoria police said they're looking for witnesses and others with information after they said the statue was vandalised around 2:30 p.m. VicPD said as the protest was going on outside the legislature, a group of people moved to the Queen Victoria statue and vandalized it with red paint. Previous cleanups cost the city at least $10,000. A controversial Kitchener statue has been vandalized again. May 18, 2018, Montreal - Days before the outdated and insulting Queen Victoria holiday, two landmark statues to Queen Victoria in Montreal were vandalized last night. There was also a Queen Victoria statue defaced in Montreal in November 2019, after a group argued that the history behind the figure has been "whitewashed in history books and . "The City is aware of the paint on the Queen Victoria statue. Red paint was found splattered over the base of the statue of Queen Victoria at Victoria . In a Friday release, Victoria police said they're looking for witnesses and others with information after they said the statue was vandalised around 2:30 p.m. VicPD said as the protest was going on outside the legislature, a group of people moved to the Queen Victoria statue and vandalized it with red paint. Police believe it was vandalized with red paint sometime overnight. The latest incident was reported to police on Thursday morning, although police. Share. He came down on his own at around 3:45 p.m. A day earlier, the statue of the queen was vandalized with red paint and crews had started cleaning it on Friday morning. Read more on citynews.ca. Winnipeg Graffiti Control workers were on scene Wednesday morning cleaning up . Protesters splashed cans of red paint on the statue and used red spray paint to scrawl the words "Land. The latest attack on Victoria's statue happened on . Statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II have been toppled in Canada amid growing outrage over the discovery of unmarked graves belonging to Indigenous children. May 18, 2018, Montreal - Days before the outdated and insulting Queen Victoria holiday, two landmark statues to Queen Victoria in Montreal were vandalized last night. . During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, it was taken to Japan to . Another statue, one of Queen Elizabeth II, was also toppled. Protesters stand on a pedestal that once supported a statue of Queen Victoria, toppled during a rally, following the discovery of the remains of hundreds of children at former indigenous . Queen Victoria statue vandalized at B.C. The justice minister at the time, legislative member Cliff Cullen, said he found the vandalism "very disturbing." Unfortunately, acts of vandalism in Kitchener, including Victoria Park, are not new. The statue of Queen Victoria in front of the Manitoba Legislative Building had white paint dumped on it overnight. Statue splattered with red paint by old growth forest proponents The head of the Queen Victoria statue was also removed. In the vintage image posted below the Prince of Wales was unveiling the Statue of Queen Victoria at Agra," December . Police said officers responded to Victoria park at approximately 9:05 a.m. and found red paint on the statue of Queen Victoria in Victoria Park on May 5. The vandalism of these statues is widely thought to be motivated by support for the suffering of Indigenous people at the hands of colonizing governments. This statue was cast in Pimlico, London, and was originally installed at the centre of Statue Square in Central, the main business district of Hong Kong, where it was unveiled by then-Governor William Robinson on 28 May 1896, the day officially appointed for the celebration of the seventy-seventh birthday of Queen Victoria. legislature on Friday. The statue was doused with white paint with red over its mouth. Her statue and a statue of Queen Elizabeth II were toppled on. The latest attack on Victoria's statue. Previous cleanups cost the city at least $10,000. The Queen Victoria statue in front of McGill University's Strathcona Music Building was vandalized with red paint on the evening of March 17. A headless statue of Queen Victoria is seen overturned and vandalized at the provincial legislature in Winnipeg, Friday, July 2, 2021. According to a news release shared by No Borders Media, the Brigade "defied curfew to again vandalize the landmark bronze statue to Queen Victoria." The vandalism of these statues is widely thought to be . A bronze statue of Queen Victoria in front of McGill's Strathcona Music Building in downtown Montreal was covered in green paint Saturday night. legislature The bronze sculpture by Irish artist Albert Bruce-Joy has stood outside the Parliament Buildings for a century by Charlie Smith on June 12th . A group of protesters vandalized a statue of Queen Victoria at the B.C. The Victoria Memorial in downtown Montreal (erected in 1872) as well the bronze statue on Sherbrooke Street (erected in 1900) at McGill University were both sprayed in red paint. VicPD are looking for witnesses after the Queen Victoria statue located on the grounds of the BC legislature was vandalized Friday afternoon. Red paint was found splattered over the base of the statue of Queen Victoria at Victoria . The statue of Queen Victoria should either be cleaned up, or be permanently removed from the Kitchener park that bears her name. A respected Maori elder has deplored the brazen graffiti of a 115-year-old statue of Queen Victoria in Dunedin. Published May 5, 2022 10:06 a.m. PDT. Earlier this month, another statue of Queen Victoria—also designed by Frampton—was vandalized as the words 'racist' and 'coloniser' were painted on it. During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, it was taken to Japan to . . . Canada; In 2014 both in Mathura and in Agra cities the statues of Queen Victoria was targeted by vandals. They defied curfew to again vandalize the landmark bronze statue to Queen Victoria — unveiled in 1900 and located on Sherbrooke Street at McGill University — this time in red paint. read. Montreal's John A Macdonald statue was once again vandalized on May 17, 2019. CBC has requested comment from the province. A controversial Kitchener statue has been vandalized again. By Irish artist Albert Bruce-Joy has stood outside the Parliament Buildings for a century by Charlie on. 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