Stumbled across a great new art installation on boulevard Robert-Bourassa just above Wellington. I just thought it was playful, with no deeper meaning, a way to cheer up a blah chunk of roadway. But one of my more thoughtful Facebook friends suggested that it looked like the signatories to the Great Peace of Montreal. Turns out he’s right. I did a bit of digging and found out that the figures in the installation are meant to reproduce the pictograms of the First Nations that signed the treaty of 1701. I always love a walk that teaches me something. The second photo (from the Canadian Encyclopedia) shows what the treaty actually looked like.
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