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im in the camp that if there was a good local name, and it was polled, i would totally vote in favor of a rename. I've lived in a couple towns now with native names, and really prefered it over.. Campbell River for example.
That said, this is so far down my list of priorities...
Yeah I'd support a name change to something better, but I'm not much interested in a discussion of what 'better' is.
Personally I don't care for it is or isn't a native name, but I do dislike British Columbia. I can live with it but if it were out up to a vote to change it I would say go for it.
I hate that it's:
I would much prefer a simpler name like Alberta or Manitoba. Fuck Saskatchewan though I need to pull out the dictionary for that one half the time.
Definitely agree about point C
We are not British, not related to miss Columbia, republic of Columbia, ect
Ooooh BC -> C and DC -> C
Me: I’m going to Columbia. Them: Canada, US or SA?
I say we piss literally everyone off and change it to British Colombia.
How about United Kingdom's Colombia?
How about English Colombia?
They aren't suggesting dropping the "British", rather they are asking about changing the name to something more representative of the Indigenous Peoples of BC who have been keepers of the land since time immemorial.
Not sure how that would work, though, as there are so many Nations and languages in the province.
Like, "Powell River School District" is now "qathet School District". They didn't just drop "Powell" to call it "River", lol.
Sorry, I suppose my humor doesn’t always transfer via text.
There is nothing offensive about the name British Columbia. This isn't like Yong-Dundas or schools that are named after residential school pushers or streets named after slavers.
There is a push to native-wash everything in Canada, I think because it makes progressives feel like they've accomplished something despite the systems of oppression against native peoples remaining fundamentally unchanged.
Though indirectly, it's named after Columbus... as in Christopher Columbus
Not really, it is named after the Columbia River, named after the ship that found the mouth, the Columbia Rediviva.
Columbia, from Columbus, has always been a common poetic name for the US and it's this that the ship is named after. The name of BC is one of many on the continent that ultimately derives from Columbus
Sure if you stretch it. But BC wasn't named aftet Columbus "discovering" it. Changing the name to remove a a non-connection is just putting glitter on shit
I vote for just calling it BC without any hint of this being an abbreviation. If anyone asks say it stands for BeCause.
Beautiful Beesee