Everything is offensive: Here are Canada’s other politically incorrect place names
A lesson for Ontario teachers who want to strip Sir John A. Macdonald's name from schools; almost nobody from history looks good by modern standards
Tristin Hopper, August 25, 2017, 11:37 AM EDT, http://nationalpost.com/news/c...ncorrect-place-names
The Sir John A. MacDonald statue at Queen's Park Circle at the foot of the Ontario Legislature in Toronto, Ont.
Last week, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario called on all school districts to strip the name of Sir John A. Macdonald from all Ontario public schools, reasoning that he was the “architect of genocide against Indigenous Peoples.”
They’re not wrong that Macdonald has a pretty dismal record on Indigenous relations, but if Canada is going to be pulling down every name associated with some uncomfortable aspect of history, the purge has only just begun. It turns out that, when judged through the prism of our enlightened era, almost everybody from Canada’s past — from famed reformers to Indigenous icons to notable women — comes off as an extremist maniac.
