[PHOTO] Toronto's Bolivar
Aug. 14th, 2008 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldThe latest addition to my Flickr photostream is a picture that I took on the 1st of this month of the statue of South America's great champion, Simón Bolivar, in south-central Toronto's Trinity-Bellwoods Park.
The various plaques reveal that this statue was a gift from the Municipality of Caracas to the City of Toronto in 1983. As this Peruvian community website hints, the statue likely plays an important symbolic role for the Latin American communities of Toronto, particularly for those immigrant communities coming from the six countries (Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia) liberated by Bolivar.
boldts.net has in its another picture of the statue, first from the bottom, this one taken from the east and under brighter lighting.
The various plaques reveal that this statue was a gift from the Municipality of Caracas to the City of Toronto in 1983. As this Peruvian community website hints, the statue likely plays an important symbolic role for the Latin American communities of Toronto, particularly for those immigrant communities coming from the six countries (Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia) liberated by Bolivar.
boldts.net has in its another picture of the statue, first from the bottom, this one taken from the east and under brighter lighting.
