I’m honestly getting tired of this ”1984”-style renaming of everything. It started with the renaming of LeBreton (Flats) station in Ottawa to Pimisi (dishonouring the history of the fire that destroyed the community), then Dominion to Kichi Sibi. Then on the GO network, Lincolnville got renamed to Old Elm, despite there still being a Lincoln Fields (interchange) station in Ottawa, and a Lincoln station in Vancouver, which didn’t get renamed. Then Dundas. Now we’re going after a new station that was already renamed twice just a decade ago. First to Black Creek Pioneer Village, and then at the behest of
Maria Augimeri to Pioneer Village.
I’m all for honouring our Indigenous Peoples, and reconciling their atrocious treatment in the past, but couldn’t we instead
strive for a multilingual approach to signage, respective of each distinct group geographically. It would be nice to have English/(French)/Indigenous language signage/announcements. My country pulls this off well with two official languages, and then English in the South, and an Indigenous language in the North.
For the record, I didn’t like it when they renamed Steeles West the first time. We’re now renaming it a third time before ”LightSpell” has ever (properly) been activated, and fare integration for the segment of Line 1 north of Steeles is even in place.
Anyone who’s studied the Bolshevik Revolution should be able to see the similarities here… it’s beyond silly by now.