Public art in Yukon’s capital is not only of high quality, but is culturally and historically appropriate and accurate, says historian Dieter Buse
At the recent successful conference by the Sudbury Arts Council, Rendezvous North, promoting culture and cultural enterprises in the North, I monitored a session on public art.
The Yukon, which is about the same size as Northeastern Ontario, has five national historic sites with interpretation centres. In contrast, Northeastern Ontario has one at Fort St. Joseph and two at Sault Ste. Marie. I have written in The Toronto Star about this imbalance under the headline “The Hole in Canadian History”, but our local politicians have not yet taken up the cause, something I argued for in this story for Sudbury.com.
As expected, the collection of statues includes significant politicians such as Erik Nielsen and Martha Black. As the locals like to emphasize, McGee was not from Tennessee and not cremated in the Yukon. You can see their busts below.As usual, the main public art of the 20th Century, the century of war, is a commemorative monument to the deceased soldiers of the region. While not particularly aesthetic, at least it is not historically incorrect like the Sudbury Memorial Park wall, which implies that Canadians fought in the Vietnam War.
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