Geoffrey Taylor began petitioning the Alberta government to drop Henri Philippe Petain\u0027s name in 2016. His son Duncan finished the job
So Calgarian Duncan Taylor took it upon himself to have the name of the Vichy France leader who collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War be removed from the B.C. side of the peak and from other nearby features.
“My dad was a bit of a history geek and whenever we’d go on a hike, he would talk about what or who these mountains were named after,” said Taylor.Article contentThe 3,183-metre peak was named after the French field marshal soon after the First World War in 1919 in honour of his victory at the 1916 Battle of Verdun.
He was widely considered a Nazi collaborationist who aided and abetted the Holocaust in the rump French state.Article content “Until such a time that a broadly supported naming proposal is brought forward and officially adopted in accordance with the policy, references to each of these features will likely be in relation to nearby named features or by GPS co-ordinates, as needed.”Article content
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