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A round of applause erupted Tuesday in the gallery of Vancouver city council chambers, after the city officially adopted its first street name in hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, the language of the Musqueam First ...
Another Trutch Street in Victoria, which is on Lekwungen Nation land, was renamed earlier this year. Victoria council voted to change the name to Su'it Street, which means "truth," or "meaning to ...
A street in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood will soon be officially renamed in what members of the Musqueam Indian Band call a step forward for reconciliation. Trutch Street will be called ...
Stickers placed on Trutch Street sign in Vancouver proclaim its namesake, B.C.’s first lieutenant-govenor Sir Joseph William Trutch, as a racist. Photo by Jason Payne / Vancouver Sun ...
At that time, then Vision Vancouver councillor Geoff Meggs told the Vancouver Sun that the city would not rename Trutch Street. Meggs is now chief of staff to Premier John Horgan.
Vancouver will join Victoria and Richmond on Friday afternoon in renaming a street named after the province’s first lieutenant-governor. At an on-reserve, public ceremony, the Musqueam Indian Band ...
Trutch Street signs in Vancouver, however, have not been removed from any of the 16 blocks that run from Point Grey Road to West 16th Avenue in Kitsilano. According to a City of Vancouver statement, ...
Councillors voted to rename Trutch Street, which runs across the city's Kitsilano neighbourhood, in July 2021, acknowledging the namesake's history of oppressing and displacing Indigenous people ...
Trutch Street in Vancouver runs north through the heart of Kitsilano from 16th Avenue to the waterfront, while Trutch Street in Victoria is only two blocks long.
Mayor Kennedy Stewart said he would be putting forward a motion to change the name of Trutch Street, a 17-block road in Kitsilano named for Joseph Trutch, who served as lieutenant governor from ...
A street in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood will soon be officially renamed in what members of the Musqueam Indian Band call a step forward for reconciliation.Trutch Street will be called ...
The mayors of Vancouver and Victoria will present motions to their councils next week asking to rename Trutch Street in their cities. Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart says he will present a motion ...