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Old Posted Aug 28, 2017, 1:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Hackslack View Post
This may open up a whole nother can of a while nother different species of worms...

Here are Canada’s other politically incorrect place names

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/...ct-place-names
Wow. And what about our precious Lord Durham ? Or Amherst ? He was about the worst of them all, especially towards the First Nations.
Or our beloved national hero, James Wolfe, who still has some counties and many streets named after him, and who simply ordered to burn every village and every farm between Québec and Rimouski, executed women and children, starved the population to death during two entire years by burning all the crops and fields and forced the remaining ones to live in the woods ? I suggest the authors of the article to read Wolfe's journal, as well as Goreham's and Monkton's (the mercenaires who executed the dirty work).

Speaking of Moncton... This is probably the most incorrect place name that exists in Canada. For the name it commemorates AND its location.

P.S. As for Wolfe, I do prefer that his name stays so we remember.

Last edited by Laceoflight; Aug 28, 2017 at 1:58 PM. Reason: Amherst.
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