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“The one-and-a-half life-size (or, as described in the original call for funds, ‘heroic size’) statue of Samuel de Champlain is easy to see from the Alexandra Bridge, east of St. Patrick Street and high up on Ottawa’s Nepean Point above the Ottawa River. On its two-metre granite pedestal, it floats well above the land it claims and any who come to see it. Across the street in Major’s Hill Park, 350 metres to the west, hidden amongst the tulip beds and kneeling in the dirt, is the Champlain statue’s companion piece: a life-size statue of an Anishinaabe scout.”

Shane Rhodes – Canadian Notes & Queries – April 2018

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