Bison Statue to Take Place of Toppled Queen Victoria at Manitoba Legislature: Premier

The statue was toppled on Canada Day in 2021 in the aftermath of an announcement in May of that year by Kamloops First Nation Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc, saying that ground-penetrating radar had detected the remains of 215 indigenous children buried on the site of a former residential school. The movement that followed saw other statues toppled around the country, as well as many church burnings.