Wadih Fares and Marie Marguerite Rose

Halifax: Vandals then reacted by splashing red paint on the monument in a small park in south-end Halifax, according to The Chronicle Herald. We should anticipate no such reaction — now or in the future — to the tributes announced last week by developer Wadih Fares. Halifax council decided in a narrow vote last week to let the Cornwallis statue in Halifax stand instead of tearing it down. The president of WM Fares Group will name five streets in his Rockingham South development in honour of accomplished Nova Scotia women: Marie Marguerite Rose, Carrie Best, Eliza Ritchie, Therese McNeil, and Ruth Goldbloom. Instead, Rose was a slave, one of hundreds of West Africans who lived in servitude at the French fort of Louisbourg in the 18th century. Each woman was a pioneer; none was a colonizer. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.