Queen Charlotte Islands and not Haida Gwaii

[JLM]

Give it time. When you're dead no one will care what you thought, as surely as no one will care that Oakmount Park on Oakmount Road in Toronto's west end will always be referred to and remembered by me as Oakmount Park, and not Park Lithuania, which the social engineers of Toronto's city counsel gave it back in the late '70s. Hell, I knew more Estonians in that neighbourhood at the time than Lithuanians. Just as I will never call the Sky Dome by the name of that corporation that got it for a song. I never felt they had the right to change the name of it. But secretly I refer to it as the Child's Dome as that's the size one must be to be comfortable in the seating there. ;?)

Anyway, by now we're all pretty much used to referring to places the way those who live there say them, such as Beijing or Mumbai, aren't we? So have a silent whimper about it and quitcher bitchin. lol

Yep, some folk just have to change things for the hell of it, can't leave anything alone! :smile:

 

[L Gilbert]

If you say Queen Charlotte Islands, it means you're a flunky of the Aboriginal Industry. An apologist for a suicide rate 10x the national average which aboriginals have. You like to impose misery on people. Saying Haida Gwaii distorts our democratic political process in favour of tribal dictatorships. It is not deserved.

Yeah, we should rename everything that has its roots in anything aboriginal: that includes the name "Canada".
What a complete and utter idiot.