Ottawa’s Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway to get an Indigenous name
“It’s moving at a snail’s pace, but I’ll take it as a sign of hope,” Kavanagh said ahead of Thursday’s update. “I hope that this means that they’ve been doing some consultation with the local First Nations communities.”
CEO Tobi Nussbaum had told the commission’s board last October that the renaming project was “underway.” And last April, the commission had said in a press release that it provided its board of directors with an updated policy on toponymy — or the study of place names — to provide “a more transparent decision-making process for naming and renaming NCC-managed assets.”
It announced that a new advisory committee on toponymy was being formed that included members of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg and Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nations, along with other local experts. “The committee’s first order of business will be to consider an existing request for the renaming of the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway,” said the press release.The Ottawa River Parkway was renamed in his honour in 2012, under the government of former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper. At the time, the NCC said it cost $60,000 to change the four major signs along the roadside.
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