Mayor Kennedy Stewart said he would be putting forward a motion to change the name of Trutch Street, a 17-block road in Kitsilano named for Joseph Trutch, who served as lieutenant governor from 1871 to 1876.
Marpole residents have offered their support to the Musqueam people after a recent incident of vandalism at cesnam village.
Last week someone slashed a banner surrounding the culturally important site in South Vancouver near the ramp to the Arthur Laing Bridge. On the tattered banner they wrote “this land was made for you and me.”
Wade Grant, a member of the Musqueam Nation, shared his frustration on Twitter.
“I guess some people are not too happy that we are protecting what’s left of our history,” he said. “Racism still exists in Vancouver.”
This happened today at cesnam, a Musqueam village site that is thousands of years old. I guess some people are not too happy that we are protecting what’s left of our history. Racism still exists in Vancouver. #vanpoli#bcpoli@MelissaDeGenova@kennedystewart@LisaDominatopic.twitter.com/iPH4ODfkgV
This Mural Tells a Beautiful Tale of Cultural Solidarity. But Did It Really Happen?
After a Tyee piece referenced the artwork, the story it depicted was called into question. The result? Sifting through conflicting histories.
Christopher Cheung reports on urban issues for The Tyee. Follow him on Twitter at @bychrischeung. SHARES The mural in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant, titled
Taike-Sye’yə from a Punjabi word roughly meaning cousin and a hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ word for friend, depicts Indigenous paddlers delivering food and supplies to the passengers of the Komagata Maru in 1914. The historicity of the story has been questioned.