WINNIPEG In a first of its kind for the municipality, the RM of Gimli is forming a committee whose sole purpose is for reconciliation. Its first task is to recommend name changes for four local roads, all of which have ties to colonialism; Colonization Road Arnes, North Colonization Road, South Colonization Road, and Colonization Close. The roads in question were at one time a single route, but as communities expanded and the land use changed the road was broken up into sections. “That word colonization is just a memory of the genocide that was taken place against the Indigenous people of Canada by all these settlers,” said area councillor Cody Magnusson. “It’s a word that for so many people, not only Indigenous people, but anyone that understands that history can and should find deeply offensive for what it represented in our history.
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