Abstract
This article compares the sites and reception of two monuments that are situated in downtown Ottawa: the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights (CTHR) and Enclave: the Women’s Monument. These two monuments, both built in the early 1990s, contribute to specific narratives of Canadian nationhood produced in Ottawa’s built environment. While the CTHR conforms to dominant narratives that suggest that Canada is a multicultural country shaped by liberal understandings of inclusion, through its design it has become a powerful site for challenging this narrative. Enclave: the Women’s Monument offers a powerful challenge to the symbolic annihilation of women within Ottawa’s built environment, while simultaneously reinforcing certain dominant gender norms. I suggest that these monuments operate as ambivalent sites that are affective because of their materiality and their urban locations.
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