Hector-Toe-Blake Park is named after the famous hockey player who had a three-decade association with the Montreal Canadiens, and with whom he won ten Stanley Cups as a player or coach.
This park also contains a couple of monuments to proud South American Liberators. The first is to Simon Bolivar who (according to Wikipedia) a Venezuelan military and political leader, who played a leading role in the establishment of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Panama as sovereign states, as they broke away from Spanish rule.
See the Montreal public art webpage for more details: https://artpublic.ville.montreal.qc.ca/en/oeuvre/buste-de-simon-bolivar/
The other hero remembered here is Jose de San Martin an Argentine general. He was the prime leader of South America’s successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire for Argentina, Chile and Peru.
See the Montreal public art webpage for more details: https://artpublic.ville.montreal.qc.ca/en/oeuvre/buste-de-jose-de-san-martin/
At the far end of the park is the striking mural titled “L’aube” (Aurora) by Rouks from the A’Shop Collective, created in 2016. It was produced by Éco-quartier Peter-McGill, and in their description, it says that this represents a debut or start.
The juxtaposition of this woman’s submissive, demure pose is a very interesting contrast to the haughty, self assured statues of the men in the park.
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