Meanwhile, Calgary boasts a downtown statue of one of Canada's "pioneer feminists" who also ardently supported Eugenics and was a shill (and the term is accurate and appropriate) for liquor prohibition.  

Name: Nelly McClung.

However, apologists will claim it "doesn't matter" because times were different, then and she championed the cause of women...etc., etc. 

Well, times were certainly different when Robert E. Lee decided to resign his command in the union army and lead the confederate one instead, because, well, he LIVED in Virginia, for one thing (""I could not raise my hand against my home and my family.")  And he freed the slaves  a few years after he inherited them in his wife's family estate.