Statues and Monuments
Statue of John Graves Simcoe 48th Highlanders Regimental MemorialThe southern section of the park is the site of the Ontario Legislature, the seat of the provincial government. The grounds contain several monuments commemorating notable historical figures and events:
- George Brown | one of the Fathers of Confederation by Charles Bell Birch 1884
- King Edward VII | by Thomas Brock 1919; originally installed at the old King Edward VII Park (now Netaji Subhash Park) in Delhi, India in 1919, removed in 1967, sold in 1968 and re-installed in Toronto in 1969
- Sir John A. Macdonald | first Prime Minister of Canada by Hamilton MacCarthy 1894
- John Sandfield Macdonald, first Premier of Ontario by Walter Allward 1909
- William Lyon Mackenzie | leader of the Upper Canada Rebellion by Walter Allward 1940
- Sir Oliver Mowat | third Premier of Ontario by Walter Allward 1905
- Northwest Rebellion memorial |
- John Graves Simcoe | first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada by Walter Allward 1903
- Queen Victoria | by Mario Raggi 1870
- Sir James Pliny Whitney | sixth Premier of Ontario by Hamilton MacCarthy 1927
- Ontario Veterans Memorial |
- Ontario Police Memorial | by Siggy Puchta 2000
- Queen Elizabeth II Rose Gardens | in honour of Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee in 1977 and Golden Jubilee in 2002
- Al Purdy | celebrated Canadian poet
- Canadian Volunteer Monument | by Robert Reid 1870
- Jesus Christ | Central Figure of Christianity
A sandstone monument with Italian marble figures and bronze plaques was erected on the University of Toronto Campus by the Canadian Volunteer Monument Campaign of 1866, Committee of Toronto citizens and its chairman, Dr. McCaul, then President of the University of Toronto. The monument was dedicated to those of the The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada regiment who were killed in action or who died from wounds defending her frontier in June 1866.
A monument honouring militia volunteers who had died fighting against Fenian invaders at the Battle of Limeridge is located just west of Queen's Park in an isolated corner of the University of Toronto campus, at coordinates 43°39′45″N 79°23′36″W / 43.662637°N 79.393308°W / 43.662637; -79.393308 (Battle of Limeridge monument). Although this monument was in Queen's Park at the time of its unveiling in 1870, it has since been cut off from the rest of the park by the construction of Queen's Park Crescent.
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