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Consultation has concluded
The engagement phase in the Your Stories, Our Histories project has now concluded. Thank you for taking the time to provide input into an updated cultural heritage strategy for Kingston. Staff are reviewing all input received and will report back to Council in the winter of 2020. You can learn more about next steps here https://www.cityofkingston.ca/city-hall/projects-construction/your-stories
Kingston, as a community, has evolved and changed over time. Help us shape the exhibits, programs, and spaces that the City of Kingston creates for residents and visitors by getting involved in Your Stories, Our Histories. Your feedback may be used to identify a list of themes, issues and topics that could be used to develop future programming that includes exhibits, events and educational offerings on-site at Kingston City Hall as well as across other City-owned sites.
As a subset of the Your Stories, Our Histories project the City also invited residents to offer their perspectives on Sir John A. Macdonald and how his history and legacy can be positioned within a broader understanding of local history. This consultation is now complete. Learn more about the actions arising from this consultation at https://www.cityofkingston.ca/explore/culture-history/history/sir-john-a
We are listening! Here is how to get involved:
In person:
Come chat with us! We will be in the community at special events throughout the spring and summer. Take a look at the key dates, then plan to stop by and visit with us.
Attend a workshop that dives into themes and ideas that matter. Sign up to express your interest and availability - we will contact you once we have finalized the dates and locations of these workshops.
Visit the Sir John A Macdonald room in Kingston's City Hall and leave a comment card.
Online:
Offer your input below. Share your story, thoughts and ideas on how we can make Kingston's history more inclusive.
The engagement phase in the Your Stories, Our Histories project has now concluded. Thank you for taking the time to provide input into an updated cultural heritage strategy for Kingston. Staff are reviewing all input received and will report back to Council in the winter of 2020. You can learn more about next steps here https://www.cityofkingston.ca/city-hall/projects-construction/your-stories
Kingston, as a community, has evolved and changed over time. Help us shape the exhibits, programs, and spaces that the City of Kingston creates for residents and visitors by getting involved in Your Stories, Our Histories. Your feedback may be used to identify a list of themes, issues and topics that could be used to develop future programming that includes exhibits, events and educational offerings on-site at Kingston City Hall as well as across other City-owned sites.
As a subset of the Your Stories, Our Histories project the City also invited residents to offer their perspectives on Sir John A. Macdonald and how his history and legacy can be positioned within a broader understanding of local history. This consultation is now complete. Learn more about the actions arising from this consultation at https://www.cityofkingston.ca/explore/culture-history/history/sir-john-a
We are listening! Here is how to get involved:
In person:
Come chat with us! We will be in the community at special events throughout the spring and summer. Take a look at the key dates, then plan to stop by and visit with us.
Attend a workshop that dives into themes and ideas that matter. Sign up to express your interest and availability - we will contact you once we have finalized the dates and locations of these workshops.
Visit the Sir John A Macdonald room in Kingston's City Hall and leave a comment card.
Online:
Offer your input below. Share your story, thoughts and ideas on how we can make Kingston's history more inclusive.
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The final in-person opportunity for Kingston residents to contribute to the development of an updated cultural heritage strategy will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 6 p.m. at the Rideau Heights Community Centre (85 MacCauley St.).
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Beginning Sept. 6, the City of Kingston is asking residents to express how they feel about Sir John A. Macdonald's legacy. The "Your Stories, Our Histories" public engagement opportunity will launch a 2018-2019 community discussion that will help the City reflect Kingston's deep and diverse histories in its cultural exhibitions, events and programming.
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More than any other person, first Canadian PM laid the foundation for the development of this country as one of the world’s greatest. Source: Cape Breton Post Published: Sept. 14, 2018
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A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in downtown Montreal was spray painted red Thursday night, the third time it has been vandalized since November. Source: CBC Published: Aug. 17, 2018
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An Indigenous MP, who called for the renaming of Ottawa's Langevin Block because of its namesake's role in the creation of the residential school system, said he does not feel the same way about stripping the name of Canada's first prime minister from public schools. Source: CBC News. Published: Aug. 27, 2017
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Right now, Canada is experiencing another spasm of controversy over the legacy of its first prime minister, John A. Macdonald. Although he undoubtedly laid the foundations of modern Canada, he also personally set in motion all the most damaging elements of Canadian Indigenous policy. Source: National Post. Published: Aug. 28, 2018
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Sir John A. Macdonald’s 200th birthday is upon us. Across Canada, celebrations are afoot; at the Historica-Dominion Institute’s SirJohnADay website you can even print out a party hat. Source: Ottawa Citizen. Published: Jan 9, 2013
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Canadians are waking up to the contributions Indigenous peoples have made, and are making, to this country’s identity. Celebrating men like Sir John A. Macdonald doesn’t do this. Source: Ottawa Citizen. Published: January 9, 2015
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Two down, 11 statues still standing. That’s how many can be found of our founder, Sir John A. Macdonald, across Canada, after Victoria city hall banished his visage in a gesture of “truth and reconciliation” with Indigenous people. Source: Our Windsor. Published: Aug. 28, 2018
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