[1] The monument was designed by British sculptor George Frampton, cost $15,000, and was paid for by a mixture of public funds and private donations.

[2] Frampton used the same model in two other statues, one in St Helens, Merseyside, and the other in Leeds, West Yorkshire, both in England.

[4] During the night of 23 June 2020, the statue was vandalized with red and white paint, amid a wave of anti-racism protests.

[5] The statue was then toppled and covered in paint on 1 July 2021, Canada Day, during a protest denouncing the deaths of Indigenous children in Canadian residential schools.

Hand-written on a typed list of dignitaries at the dedication of the monument on 30 July 1921 are the words, "on account of the prohibition, we are unable to adhere to the custom of depositing a bottle of brandy under the stone, for which we are extremely sorry".