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Originally Posted by acottawa
So being a hero of Canadian Democracy is a requirement for street naming.
Besides concerns about trying to erase our history, it is impractical to rename all the streets every time the zeitgeist changes.
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I actually raised the topic of Ottawa street and other names in another thread a few days ago:
https://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=8372737&postcount=167
As for Metcalfe, he was governor general after and in terms of streets that have banal, irrelevant or useless names, it's certainly not the worst offender in downtown Ottawa.