Commemorating John A. Macdonald: Collective Remembering and the Structure of Settler Colonialism in British Columbia

Article discusses the ways that place names and public cultural artifacts in the city of Victoria enforce colonial histories and the erasure of Indigenous and Chinese narratives. Uses the removal of a statue of John A. Macdonald from the entrance to city hall as a case study to examine the similarities between the arguments of apologists and the colonial practices of early Canada.