Sechelt elder Theresa Jeffries wrote:"Why do they call it Stanley Park, by a white man's name, when our ancestors lived here for 10,000 years?"
Where is all this leading??
What name do they have in store to replace 'Vancouver' with?
After all, it is named after some white guy too!
Neumann Sennheiser wrote:I myself, the whitest white guy of Scots heritage you'll ever meet, prefer to call the local mountain around here by it's traditional name "Tahoma" rather than the more well known and accepted "Mount Ranier"; just sounds cooler to me.
slowhand wrote:How dare anyone even consider renaming a mountain named after Princess Rainier, the most beautiful actress of her time and Alfred Hitchcock's favourite, the ex-Grace Kelly?
How about a compromise? Mt. Rainier becomes Tahoma and the city of Tacoma becomes Rainier after both the now 11 year dead Seattle brewing company and Grace Kelly.
slowhand wrote:
wouldn't it make more sense and be a lot cheaper to print two B.C. maps or a larger two sided one? One with all the native names and one with all the names the rest of us know things by.
Howaboutthat wrote: I'm getting sick and tired of coddling to the First Nations in this province. It not all about them!!
Neumann Sennheiser wrote:Sechelt elder Theresa Jeffries wrote:"Why do they call it Stanley Park, by a white man's name, when our ancestors lived here for 10,000 years?"
She makes a strong point although I don't see this going anywhere, any further, anytime soon.
I myself, the whitest white guy of Scots heritage you'll ever meet, prefer to call the local mountain around here by it's traditional name "Tahoma" rather than the more well known and accepted "Mount Ranier"; just sounds cooler to me.
Xwayxway is a bit more of a mouthfull.
mightymouth wrote:May I remind you of the old saying, "To the victor go the spoils?"
slowhand wrote:Naming Rights are a lot cheaper than compensation.
Howaboutthat wrote: Want to give the old name to a certain area of the park, like maybe where the old village was... no problem. And as was suggested before, if that was to happen, the natives must have something there year round...
Howaboutthat wrote:you lose the 'branding' that's been built up over that time
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