A towering Second World War figure with a contentious history is about to make a reappearance in Calgary. 

On June 6, a nearly three-metre-tall bronze statue of Britain's wartime prime minister Winston Churchill will be unveiled on the grounds of a historic Calgary building that houses Alberta government offices.

The province spent $60,000 to prepare the McDougall Centre site but the bulk of costs are being paid by the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Calgary, whose members spent years fundraisin…