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Reference code
CA ON00156 TR/1715
Title
“New Names at Least Can Hide the Truth” - article 1966
Date(s)
- 1966 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 file
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Scope and content
File contains a newspaper clipping from 1966 about changing the name of geographic features between Belleville and Trenton in order to help remove bigotry in Canada; these sites were given names considered offensive today and have “no place in the geographic nomenclature. The article discusses a letter signed by J. Keith Fraser, executive secretary, Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographic Names, Geographical Branch, Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Ottawa.