Social City of Toronto staff supports push to rename Dundas Street due to namesake’s connection to slavery

[Badger67]

"where you wanna meet up?"

"how about at the corner of george floyds avenue and george floyds street?"

"how about george floyds boulevard near george floyds square instead?"

"thats sounds great! after that we can go to george floyd plaza"

Lets stay at the George Floyd hotel. They have weighted blankets that put you to sleep.

 

[Natural Order]

@Papi Chulo

Hit em with the Orwell quote.

The 14,000 people that signed the petition are problary just being ridicules

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

― George Orwell, 1984

 

[Social Warlord]

What are they going to do when they find out first nations practiced slavery and assimilation? Oh wait they won't because they'll rewrite history.

“The first battlefield is to rewrite history” - Karl Marx

Slavery in Canada - Wikipedia
Slave-owning people of what became Canada were, for example, the fishing societies, such as the Yurok, that lived along the Pacific coast from Alaska to California, on what is sometimes described as the Pacific or Northern Northwest Coast. Some of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, such as the Haida and Tlingit, were traditionally known as fierce warriors and slave-traders, raiding as far as California. Slavery was hereditary, the slaves being prisoners of war and their descendants were slaves. Some nations in British Columbia continued to segregate and ostracize the descendants of slaves as late as the 1970s.

Among a few Pacific Northwest nations about a quarter of the population were slaves. One slave narrative was composed by an Englishman, John R. Jewitt, who had been taken alive when his ship was captured in 1802; his memoir provides a detailed look at life as a slave, and asserts that a large number were held.

Warfare In Pre-Columbian North America - Canada.ca
Not all captives were tortured and put to death. Women and young boys were generally spared and given to bereaved families to replace the deceased. When a prisoner was adopted in this manner, he or she took on the name, character, role and responsibilities of the person he or she was replacing and was treated with great affection. If he had been tortured, he was cared for and healed. Pierre-Esprit Radisson, a young French adventurer who was captured and tortured by the Iroquois in the 1650s, reported: ‘My [adoptive] mother treated my wounds and injuries … and in less than 15 days the wounds had healed.

Olive Oatman - Wikipedia
Though she identified them as Apache, they were most likely Tolkepayas (Western Yavapai). "They clubbed many to death, left her brother Lorenzo for dead, and enslaved Olive and her younger sister, Mary Ann. The two were captive for one year and then traded to the Mohave people."

"Olive later spoke with fondness of the Mohaves, who she said treated her better than her first captors. She most likely considered herself assimilated. She was given a clan name,"

 

[shankmcgank]

Toronto's Woke Mayor wants to change the name of a ionic and popular street in Toronto. The mayor wants to rename Dundas because according to the mayor and council. It holds ties to slavery.

How long till they change rename the city of Toronto? this woke mayor even had the nerve to claim that Dundas had virtually no connection to Toronto! can you imagine a mayor making such a ridicules statement?
City of Toronto staff supports push to rename Dundas Street due to namesake’s connection to slavery

This is "problary" the most "ridicules" thing I have ever heard.

 

[cooks1]

Wouldn't it be easier just to change the 'Dundas' the street was named after. That way you don't have to change all the signs.

I nominate Thomas Dundas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dundas,_1st_Baron_Dundas

Commissioned the first steam engine tug boat. Fuckers family has got a section of Glasgow named after them. Surely they can accommodate a street in Ontario. Problem solved.

 

[Wet Blanket]

Dundas & Spadina = top notch locale! Some of the best food and culture you can find in Toronto.

And the stinkiest area on garbage day.

 

[irish_thug]

And the stinkiest area on garbage day.

I spent a couple of years working that area. I thank the gods I was not a health inspector.

 

[jlagman]

"where you wanna meet up?"

"how about at the corner of george floyds avenue and george floyds street?"

"how about george floyds boulevard near george floyds square instead?"

"thats sounds great! after that we can go to george floyd plaza"

Calgary is kinda like that, minus the wokeness. Neighbourhoods will generally share a common name and vary by street "suffix". So on one hand, it's kinda useful, in that once you're in a particular neighbourhood, you can eventually make it to the address in question. But it can also be confusing if your buddy gives you an address and doesn't know the street type or quadrant.

 

[nostradumbass]

Wouldn't it be easier just to change the 'Dundas' the street was named after. That way you don't have to change all the signs.

I nominate Thomas Dundas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dundas,_1st_Baron_Dundas

Commissioned the first steam engine tug boat. Fuckers family has got a section of Glasgow named after them. Surely they can accommodate a street in Ontario. Problem solved.

Crocodile Dundas imo.

 

[Scheme]

They should just rename it Castro's Way. That would be sweet, eh?



Wait, did I just rap?

Trudeau's Tread

 

[Aegon Spengler]

Henry Dundas was once praised as abolitionist-aligned for having helped Joseph Knight win his freedom. Dundas also proposed a “gradual abolition of slavery” plan that would have ended slavery earlier if it had been implemented.

He also sent more British men to die in Haiti trying to conquer the Island (and likely re-institute slavery) than the British had sent to India to conquer the whole sub-continent. 500 thousand British soldiers lost their lives in Haiti in the middle of the Napoleonic wars; an extreme defeat, perhaps Britains worst during that era.

Henry Dundas was personally anti slavery, but Haiti was considered the most profitable colony in the Americas, and he assumed the French under Napoleon or the Spanish would take the colony if England didn’t. What they didn’t understand was that Toussaint Louverture (rebel leader in Haiti) was among the best generals and politicians of the era, and simply could not be beaten on his home turf.

The history surrounding Dundas’s life is fascinating and complex: moreso than is given credit for in the media.

 

[Ruke Doufus]

Let's put the names of all the violent criminals that died by the police in a hat to decide what to name all the streets. Redeeming qualities are not a prerequisite.

 

[PinkFlammingo]

Toronto's Woke Mayor wants to change the name of a ionic and popular street in Toronto. The mayor wants to rename Dundas because according to the mayor and council. It holds ties to slavery.

How long till they change rename the city of Toronto? this woke mayor even had the nerve to claim that Dundas had virtually no connection to Toronto! can you imagine a mayor making such a ridicules statement?
City of Toronto staff supports push to rename Dundas Street due to namesake’s connection to slavery

What about lower dundas

 

[GoldenWolf87]

What about lower dundas

I believe this effects both Dundas. If anything they might renamed into something generic.

 

[HereticBD]

Yes, the guy who started the petition looks exactly as you would imagine.

 

[tramendous]

We should just have retarded numbers for street names. Errr meet me at 456th and 875th avenue!

 

[Badger67]

Yes, the guy who started the petition looks exactly as you would imagine.

Like rainbow colored wilted broccoli ?

 

[rearnakedchoke]

And the stinkiest area on garbage day.

In this heat???? Yikes.

 

[2DUM2TAP]

Doesn't Dundas run out to Hamilton? Hwy 5 right?

 

[Badger67]

In this heat???? Yikes.

Add the humidity of the dot also. It gets badddd. I arrived from edmonton the night before garbage day once just at sunset and had to traverse dundas to get to bay terminal. I wish i had a gas mask that night.