Excellent article and serves to do what history should do....teach (unlike the EFTO).
While we are renaming schools and removing statues I would like the statues of Nellie McClung and Emily Murphy removed from Capital hill for their support of the Alberta Sterilization act of 1937 and the practice of Eugenics. WAIT!! You mean the people who fought for women to be a "person" under law, women and Japanese Canadians the right to vote, women to be ordained ministers, brought domestic abuse into the national conscience also wanted to sterilize the poor and institutionalized??  OMG!!!!!!! Statues, street names and schools should have historic links. How else is history to be remembered?? As its taught in the schools by the EFTO???  History, the good AND the bad, needs to be taught.  Not in a painted over get rid of the name way but a factually thought based discussion.  If not it is, as they say, bound to repeat