The King of Queen's Park

A story about how an imperial statue from halfway around the world ended up in the middle of downtown Toronto.

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A Toronto Star Article about Queen's Park's various statues and the contradictory nature of historical figures—featuring our host Adam Bunch: https://goo.gl/rpqXfj

A Torontoist article that goes further into the history of the King Edward VII statue and its relationship to Toronto: https://goo.gl/BKw24j

The two massacres we refer to are the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (1919) and the Qissa Khwani Bazaar Massacre (1930).

"The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919 when troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles into a crowd of Indians, who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab. The civilians had assembled to condemn the arrest and deportation of two national leaders, Satya Pal and Saifuddin Kitchlew. There has been much debate over whether the crowd knew of the proclamation Dyer had made banning meetings, in its supposed inefficacy, however, Raja Ram has argued that the crowd formed in deliberate defiance, being the beginning of Indian nationalism." https://goo.gl/Qkm9KJ

"The massacre at the Qissa Khwani Bazaar in Peshawar, British India (modern day Pakistan) on 23 April 1930 was one of the defining moments of the independence movement in British India. It was the first major confrontation between British troops and demonstrators in the city. Estimates at the time put the death toll from the shooting at between the official count at 20, and the figure of 400 dead put forth by Pakistani and Indian sources. The gunning down of unarmed people triggered protests across British India and catapulted the newly formed Khudai Khidmatgar movement into prominence." https://goo.gl/qerHso

Extra trivia:

- Altogether there are ten monuments of historical figures in Queen's Park.
- King Edward VII laid the symbolic foundation stone for his own mother's statue (Queen Victoria). At the time he was still a Prince.
- Every year, during the University of Toronto's Frosh Week, Engineering students paint Kildare's testicles red. The tradition definitely goes back to the 1980s, and might go further. You can see it in some of the footage in this episode. (We don't know where the sticker on King Eddy's head came from or what its purpose is.)

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