"Don't look back, you're not going that way" is not a bad motto. Rather than pettily destroying historical reminders of a past that now upsets us, wouldn't it make more sense, looking ahead, to refuse to allow anyone, anywhere to put anyone's name on anything? 

What will be the cost of changing all the signs on, for instance, the MacDonald-Cartier Freeway, because if we are taking down statues and changing the names of schools, we'd better do that too, lest it offend.  Has anyone considered the harm done in the name of monarchies?   Are we about to remove all their statues and change the name of everything bearing any of their names?  

I'm in favour of naming our constructions after the things that, unlike humans, make the world a lovelier place.  I'd much rather my descendants went to, for instance, Vista Public School (where their young eyes would be opened to a wider view!) or travelled down The Trillium Highway as it crossed Ontario: those names would never need to be altered.

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