Feminist Memorializing and Cultural Countermemory: The Case of Marianne’s Park

Since the murder of fourteen women engineering students at l'Ecole polytechnique in Montreal on December 6, 1989, a number of memorial sites have been constructed, and memorial events have been organized, across Canada to keep alive the memory of what has become known as the Montreal massacre and to keep the issue of violence against women alive in the public consciousness. Bold et al discuss Marianne's Park, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, which was dedicated on December 6, 1993, on the former site of the city's women's shelter, to memorialize one of its clients, volunteers, and workers, Marianne Goulden, who was herself murdered by her male partner in 1992.