TY - JOUR
KW - Place names
KW - Berlin (Ontario)
KW - Swastika (Ontario)
AU - Alan Rayburn
AB - Many place names in Canada were changed after Canadians fought wars against countries from which those names originated or when foreign heroes were subsequently deemed monstrous. Of the approximately 30 names of probable German origin that existed in southwestern Ontario at the beginning of World War I, for example, 3 were changed during wartime. The most significant occurred in 1916, when the city of Berlin was renamed Kitchener, to honor British military hero Lord Horatio Kitchener. Not all attempts to change names succeeded, though. Residents of a village in Ontario that was named Swastika in 1906--for the Sanskrit word meaning "good luck"--successfully resisted efforts in 1940 to change the name to Winston, in honour of British prime minister Winston Churchill. Other name changes are discussed.
BT - Canadian Geographic
C7 - Unknown(0)
DB - Feature Article
ID - 373
LA - English
M1 - Journal Article
M3 - Print(0)
PY - 1993
SN - 0706-2168
SP - 92
EP - 93
EP - 
T1 - When names become politically incorrect
T2 - Canadian Geographic
VL - 113
ER -