{"id":355,"date":"2015-06-09T17:07:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T17:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/?p=355"},"modified":"2015-06-09T17:17:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T17:17:57","slug":"tkaronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"tkaronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_357\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/purchase1787.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-357\" class=\"wp-image-357 size-featured-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/purchase1787-600x380.gif\" alt=\"purchase1787\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/purchase1787-600x380.gif 600w, https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/purchase1787-110x70.gif 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Toronto Purchase signed in 1787 courtesy of Heritage Toronto<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A series of recent\u00a0articles remind us of Canada&#8217;s colonial history through a series of examples featuring an intervention of renaming street signs in Toronto, and a report from the &#8220;Truth and Reconciliation Committee&#8221; released last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToronto\u201d comes from a Mohawk word, according to aboriginal language scholar John Stackley \u2014 \u201ctkaronto,\u201d meaning \u201cwhere there are trees standing in the water.\u201d The phrase refers to stakes that members of the Huron tribe installed to make fishing weirs where Lake Simcoe meets Lake Couchiching.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 1787, the British government bought the land between Etobicoke Creek and Ashbridges Bay from a group of Mississauga chiefs for 10 shillings \u2014$60 in today\u2019s money. Historians now agree that the chiefs believed they were leasing the land, not selling it. In 2010, the Mississauga of New Credit won a $145-million land claim related to the territory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n<div class=\"csl-entry\">\n<div style=\"width: 493px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/ogimaamikana1-e1415074730475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"431\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">image from Spacing Magazine<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csl-entry\">Andrew-Gee, Eric. 2015. \u201cTravelling down Ishpadinaa Today? Group Renames Streets to Draw Attention to the Overlooked Aboriginal Presence in Toronto.\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2015\/06\/02\/toronto-street-signs-a-reminder-of-first-nations-heritage.html\"> <i>The Toronto Star<\/i>, June 2.\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"csl-entry\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"csl-entry\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/ogimaamikana.tumblr.com\/?og=1\">Ogimaa Mikana: Reclaiming\/Renaming.<\/a>\u201d 2015. Accessed June 9.<\/div>\n<div class=\"csl-entry\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"csl-entry\">Williams, Lacey Mcrae. 2015. \u201c<a href=\"%20http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2014\/11\/04\/reclaiming-spacingplaces-restoring-indiginous-street-names-toronto\/\">Reclaiming Spaces\/Places: Restoring Indigenous Street Names in Toronto<\/a>.\u201d <i>Spacing National<\/i>. Accessed June 9.<\/div>\n<div class=\"csl-entry\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"csl-entry\">Wood, Tim. 2015. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2015\/06\/08\/canada-should-replace-colonial-place-names-with-indigenous-ones.html\">Once a Tool for Colonialism, Place Names Can Now Be a Tool for Reconciliation<\/a>.\u201d <i>The Toronto Star<\/i>, June 8.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A series of recent\u00a0articles remind us of Canada&#8217;s colonial history through a series of examples featuring an intervention of renaming street signs in Toronto,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35,36,33,34],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-alternative-cartographies","tag-decolonizing-canada","tag-history","tag-indigenous-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.space-for-place.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}