There is an art installation in downtown Ottawa that is hard to miss. It's displayed prominently on the south façade of the National Gallery of Canada for everyone to see.
"That is absolutely the point," the artist, Deanna Bowen, tells CTV News Ottawa. "I want people to be able to see it, encounter it, not be able to pass it by."
"It's an opportunity for me to honour my ancestors in a very important way, in a country that was not very welcoming at the beginning. Being able to research, resource that history and put it out for the public to learn has been a powerful thing," says Bowen." is on Emancipation Day. It was on Aug. 1, 1834 that the slavery abolition act took effect, which lead to the liberation of people in the British Empire.
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