Work began Wednesday on a national monument marking the discrimination faced by members of the LGBTQ+ community.
It is set to open in the summer of 2025.
The monument specifically seeks to recognize discrimination at the hands of the Canadian government from the 1950s to the mid-1990s.
It was paid for by the LGBT Purge Fund, a non-profit that manages funds from a class action lawsuit over that discrimination.
The monument is located steps in front of the Ottawa River and was designed in partnership with Indigenous elders.
It will be complete with a sacred fire site and a column, broken apart by a thunderhead cloud inside.