City of Kingston employees remove graffiti from the statue of Sir John A. MacDonald on Jan. 11, 2013, the 198th anniversary of his birth. "This is stolen land," reads the defacing graffiti. "Murderer.

The hard truths are hard to avoid now at Bellevue House. The National Historic Site was once home to Sir John A. Macdonald, once unabashedly celebrated as Canada’s first prime minister.

Updated at 9:50 a.m. ET on June 22, 2021. T he memory of John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, is not thriving these days in the country he brought into being.In 2018, his image was ...

A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald outside Queen’s Park was covered after repeated acts of vandalism, and the hoarding was removed after five years.