New foes emerge against Halifax’s Cornwallis statue: Highlanders descendants
HALIFAX — Somewhere in Halifax, a large statue honouring British commander Edward Cornwallis — founder of the historic port city — is gathering dust.
In a move that made international headlines, city council ordered the statue cut from its downtown pedestal and hauled away this winter amid a heated debate over Cornwallis’s role in a bloody conflict with Nova Scotia’s Indigenous people in the mid-1700s.
Local resident Beth Anne MacEachen says the statue should never have been erected in the first place.
“He didn’t deserve that type of notoriety,” she says. “To celebrate him is not what we should be doing.”