IT'S BUUUURNNNIIIIIING!!!!!!!!!

This last Saturday (July 14th), we went downtown, to the Parliament Hill for the event of the capital circuit. There, in front of the Parliament, I saw a fountain that seemed perfectly normal except the fact that there was a LIT FIRE on top of it...


This fountain is called the Centennial Flame and has been built in 1967. It is a monument shaped like a polygon that contains the carvings of 12 of the 13 Canada’s provinces and territories on it. There is one province missing, which is Nunavut since this territory was created only in 1999, 32 years after the construction of the fountain.

The Centennial Flame was originally built to celebrate Canada’s 100^th anniversary in 1967. The flame on top of the water, surrounded by the provinces and territories represents the « Canada's unity from sea to sea ».

Personally, I think that this monument is a good expression of art, firstly because of its originality and of its beauty, but also because of the fact that it symbolizes something: The Centennial Flame reminds us of events from Canada’s history by showing the provinces and the territories that belongs to the country and also by being a proof of our pride to be Canadian.

Z.X.