\u0022Earlier assumptions about Canadian history that have excluded Indigenous people, among others, can no longer be accepted,\u0022 reads a federal document obtained…
Some involve historic figures who held beliefs at odds with current standards. They include one of the Fathers of Confederation, John A. Macdonald; Archibald Belaney, otherwise known as Grey Owl; and Nicholas Flood Davin, founder of one of the West’s first newspapers.
The most common reason for rewriting — covering plaques for French explorer Jacques Cartier, Alberta’s Bar U Ranch and Nunavut’s Kekerten Island Whaling Station — are “colonial assumptions,” the document says. “A new woke perspective is being imposed on what was formerly an apolitical, fact-driven historical designation process,” he wrote in the National Post.
“It’s important to continue to reflect on these events. There are additional layers of understanding about them and some of those understandings are not celebratory.”Article content“Many designations associated with the fur trade have excluded the essential role of Indigenous people,” the document says. “By ⦠providing recognition of the necessary partnership that existed between the two cultures, this gap in historical significance will begin to be rectified.
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