[PHOTO] John A. MacDonald on VIctoria Row, Charlottetown

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In 2009, a statue of Canada's first prime minister, John A. MacDonald, was erected in Charlottetown at a cost of 80 thousand dollars, sitting on a bench at the western end of Victoria Row on Queen Street. Spacing Atlantic suggested in 2009 that there was some controversy over the statue, as much over the American nationality of sculptor Michael Halterman as of the cost, but it has remained, a recent addition to Canada's MacDonald's statuary collection.