Lunenburg council announced Tuesday that a street and two parks will be renamed following a recommendation from the town’s anti-racism committee
The committee said changes are needed because the parks and street were originally named after former Nova Scotia governor Edward Cornwallis, who issued a “scalping proclamation” in 1749 that offered a bounty to anyone who killed Mi’kmaq men, women or children.
Several other Nova Scotia communities have removed the name from their streets, including Bridgewater, Kentville, Halifax and Sydney. A statue of the British military officer was also removed from a park in downtown Halifax. The plan in Lunenburg is to find new names that will honour Mi’kmaq and African Nova Scotian figures.The survey includes a number of renaming options, including E’se’katik – the original Mi’kmaq name for Lunenburg – which means “place of clams.”
Other options include Gta’n, the Mi’kmaq word for ocean; Kluscap, the spiritual figure for Indigenous peoples in New England and Atlantic Canada; Matlot, the Mi’kmaq word for sailor; and Merligueche, the Mi’kmaq word for “whitecaps which topped the waves.”
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