Minto Park
Elgin Street
Written by Bytown Museum
on
03/Dec/2009
For some, Minto Park is the perfect spot to stop and watch the world go by while you enjoy a cup of coffee or gelato from one of the shops on Elgin Street.
Minto Park is also the site of the Ottawa Women's Monument, Enclave, dedicated in 1992, which reads, “To honour and to grieve all women abused and murdered by men. Envision a world without violence where women are respected.” The monument was erected following a series of particularly brutal murders of women in Ottawa in 1991, including that of one woman who was murdered with a crossbow in broad daylight on a downtown street.
An annual memorial service is held at the monument on International Women's Day in March to remember those Ottawa women and the victims of the École Polytechnique massacre in Montréal in 1989.
