Victoria councillors voted unanimously Thursday to move forward with efforts to rename Trutch Street. Council has directed staff to report back in the fall on the implications of renaming the . . .
The question now is: Should his name be yanked off a street sign in Fairfield? And, more broadly, what about the practice of yanking names in general, whether from street signs or buildings or cities or mountains? We have been down this road (as it were) before. Three years ago, Victoria council discussed Trutch Street but did not change the name in the same way that UVic had done with a student residence bearing the Trutch name. Now the matter is coming up again. Both Vancouver and Victoria city councils will look at renaming their respective Trutch Streets. In the capital’s case, it would affect a two-block road lined, mostly, by stately single-family homes.
The mayor of Vancouver is introducing a motion to rename Trutch Street over the namesake s history of oppressing and displacing Indigenous people in B.C.