Letter to the Toronto Star, June 3, 2015. Unpublished.
The Star shows concern for the erasure of aboriginal street names (Ojibe street signs bold reminder of aboriginal heritage, June 3), yet none for the disappearance of other historic names.
I refer to the changing of Cawthra
Square in downtown Toronto to Barbara Hall Park. Surely there was some better
way to honour the former Human Rights Commissioner than by blotting out the
name of one of our early families?
For more than a century, Cawthra Square was
the name of a plot of land in the Isabella and Jarvis area near where William
Cawthra's widow lived after her husband's death in 1880. William was a businessman and philanthropist.
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