Plan Afoot to Erect Statue of Churchill in Calgary

‘We hope to inform a new generation about who Winston Churchill was,’ says association president

Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspects air raid damage in Battersea, south London, on Sept. 10, 1940. Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images

Amid the attempts to revise Winston Churchill’s legacy and recast him as a monstrous figure, an organization in Calgary is forging ahead with a plan to erect a statue of Britain’s wartime prime minister in the city next year.

Churchill visited Alberta in 1929, and while Edmonton honoured him with a statue and a downtown square in his name, Calgary has no statue, and the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Calgary wants to change that.