B.C. keeps renaming landmarks in languages spoken by only a handful of people

British Columbia continues to rename streets, provincial parks and even entire cities in Indigenous languages.

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British Columbia continues to rename streets, provincial parks and even entire cities in Indigenous languages that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization classifies as “critically endangered.”

One prominent example came in 2018, when the province renamed Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park—home to on…