Thunderhead — Canada's 2SLGBTQI+ National Monument

Thunderhead is Canada's national 2SLGBTQI+ monument, at 201 Wellington Street on the Ottawa River by the Portage Bridge, west of Parliament Hill. It opened on 21 August 2026. It came out of the LGBT Purge, the decades in which the federal government, military and RCMP investigated and fired gay, lesbian and bisexual employees; the government apologised in November 2017 and part of the survivors' class-action settlement paid for it. The design, by Two-Spirit Elder Albert McLeod with Public City Architecture and artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, is a mirrored thundercloud over a landscaped park on the river path. It's an outdoor site; the official website has visitor details.