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Originally Posted by ScreamingViking
… it's worth noting that there's an entire Scottish clan of that name, and a Dundas Castle built far before Henry was a glimmer in his parents' eyes, in a region that bore the Gaelic version of the name since at least the 11th century.
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And Hamilton could be named after Alexander Hamilton, who was on Earth before George Hamilton, or the Scottish clan, or the Leicestershire suburb.
And Ryerson University could have sold naming rights to the American metals firm.
It just depends how you look at things.
The Dundas rebrand is a more meaningful move in Toronto, by many measures the most diverse metropolitan area on the planet, than in Dundas, the second whitest community in the GTHA (whitest if your formulation of GTHA doesn't include Grimsby). The political calculus between the two places is also very different. Here, the town is given to the battle cry of "Dundas Forever," though the odds are extremely good that the majority of its residents even now are ignorant of the origins of the name.