Winnipeg council to debate renaming Bishop Grandin Boulevard, other streets after recommendations – Winnipeg | 24CA News
A outstanding Winnipeg highway named after an architect of Canada’s residential faculty system might see a title change to one thing extra culturally acceptable.
Winnipeg’s government coverage committee will have a look at a report subsequent Monday that implies renaming Bishop Grandin Boulevard to Abinojii Mikanah — which suggests “Children’s Roadway.”
Grandin Street in St. Boniface and the Bishop Grandin Trail would even be in line to obtain new Cree names — Taapweewin Way and Awasisak Mēskanow — as chosen by a gaggle of Indigenous elders, residential faculty survivors, data keepers and youth.
The streets’ namesake, Vital-Justin Grandin, was a Roman Catholic priest who died in 1902. The 2015 Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada credit Grandin with main the marketing campaign for residential colleges.
According to a 2021 Probe Research ballot, a majority of Winnipeggers stated they wish to see Bishop Grandin Boulevard’s title modified. The survey was performed in gentle of the invention of the unmarked graves of 215 Indigenous youngsters at a former Kamloops, B.C. residential faculty that yr.
While 55 per cent of Winnipeggers polled stated they’d wish to see the title modified, an extra quarter of respondents stated they like a compromise — protecting the title however educating individuals about Grandin’s involvement with residential colleges. That’s an alternative choice on the desk for councillors, who may also take into account putting new historic plaques that present context to the present historic marker about Grandin.
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