Controversial statue in Toronto removed and destroyed without notice
Alexander Wood has left the Village. Toronto's Church-Wellesley Village, that is, where a bronze statue of the gay pioneer was erected nearly two d...
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Alexander Wood has left the Village. Toronto's Church-Wellesley Village, that is, where a bronze statue of the gay pioneer was erected nearly two d...
Published Wednesday, June 9, 2021 10:10AM EDT Members of Toronto’s Village neighbourhood are calling for the removal of a statue of a figure connected to the dark history of Canada’s residential school system. The Church-Wellesley Business Improvement Area (BIA) wants the city to help it remove a statue honouring Alexander Wood, which currently stands at the north-west corner of Alexander and Church streets. In a letter to Mayor John Tory, the BIA noted that Wood was a founding board member, and for many years the treasurer, of “The Society for Converting and Civilizin...