MONTREAL — A student newspaper at McGill University has dropped “McGill” from its name and is calling on the university to stop using the name because the…
Calls on campus to change the university’s name have gained little traction, but Edward-Wright said Ryerson University’s recent transformation to Toronto Metropolitan University over its namesake’s ties to the residential school system shows that change is possible.
McGill University acknowledges on its website that its founder — a wealthy merchant from Scotland — owned at least five Black and Indigenous people, including two children who both died around the age of 10. He also traded in goods produced by enslaved people.Article content The university, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment, removed a statue of James McGill from its campus in 2021 after it was vandalized. The statue had previously been the target of a petition and protests calling for its removal.
“We don’t have anything against the university itself, we’re very proud of the researchers and everybody who makes up the community, because that’s really what it is. It’s a community,” she said. That community would remain if the name were changed, she said.
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