Re: "Council votes for public engagement over city names," The Gazette, Dec. 8.
Here we go again, trying to rewrite our history with changing names of city places and streets, etc., so we don't upset the "woke" fraternity who can't handle the truth of how these places came to be and reasons behind it. Instead of changing names, what we should be doing is putting plaques up beside these names to educate not only this current generation of young people, but also future generations to follow them on the reasons why those names were given and history behind them.
To change names today is to try and whitewash history and its mistakes — hide it and pretend it never happened. I am sure the first settlers to Alberta thought they were within their rights to steal and cheat the Indigenous people out of their lands, but I don't see that ever being discussed by city council, or an offer to hand back the lands St. Albert is built on to their rightful owners.
Steve Christian, St. Albert
