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And if you have to explain who a street was named after and why we now find him odious, it saps a lot of the righteous indignation out of stripping his name from that street.
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Such is the case in Toronto, where city council has voted to de-name Dundas Street, a major east-west thoroughfare.
Dundas Street takes its name from a pretty-well forgotten British politician who, 229 years ago, led a charge to delay British abolition of slavery.