A Halifax Street once named for a colonial governor who put a bounty on indigenous scalps will be renamed after a Mi’Kmaw matriarch who dedicated her life to residential school survivors.
Halifax’s Cornwallis Street will be renamed after Mi’kmaw activist Nora Bernard. Halifax Regional Council approved the renaming of Cornwallis Street to Nora Bernard Street on Tuesday.
The daughter of late Mi kmaq activist Nora Bernard says it s "incredibly powerful" that a Halifax street that has long honoured a man who encouraged the killing of her ancestors will likely be renamed after her mother.