The Sir George-Étienne Cartier Monument is a monument by sculptor

George William Hill George William Hill (March 3, 1838 – April 16, 1914) was an American astronomer and mathematician. Working independently and largely in isolation from the wider scientific community, he made major contributions to celestial mechanics and t ...

(1862–1934), with depiction of

George-Étienne Cartier Sir George-Étienne Cartier, 1st Baronet, (pronounced ; September 6, 1814May 20, 1873) was a Canadians, Canadian statesman and Fathers of Confederation, Father of Confederation. The English spelling of the name—George, instead of Georges, th ...

, located in

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, Canada. The monument, which is topped by a winged Goddess of Fame (La Renommée), was inaugurated on September 6, 1919, in the heart of Fletcher's Field west side. In temperate months it is the site of free weekly drum circle festivals informally called

Tam-Tams The Tam-Tams is the informal name of a weekly free festival around the George-Étienne Cartier Monument in Mount Royal#Mount Royal Park, Mount Royal Park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its name imitates the sound of drums and refers to the drum ci ...

. On the front, or East side of the monument, George-Étienne Cartier is portrayed standing above four other figures, each one representing a Province that signed the Canadian Confederation of 1867. On the North side of the monument, a woman with a young girl to her right and a young boy to her left is shown holding a sword in her left hand. The boy holds out his bonded wrists in a begging manner as the girl reads a book. This scene represents

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. On the South side, in a similar scene to the North side, a woman sits in the middle of a young boy who is holding a globe and a young girl who is reading a book. This represents Cartier's important contributions in education.

Gallery

Sir_George_Etienne_Cartier_Monument,_Montreal.jpg, The George-Étienne Cartier Monument in Mount Royal Park, Montreal Monument G E Cartier Est.JPG, The ''George-Étienne Cartier'' statue on the monument

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External links

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