Wellington Street (downtown) at risk of being renamed

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Originally Posted by Jamaican-Phoenix

Um, yes, you should. This is the capital of Canada. I don't see monuments and boulevards in Washington DC, Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna, Mexico City, Tokyo, etc. named after foreigners who made a difference in the world.

Sure, they should be honoured for their contributions, but where it makes sense.

Paris has an "Avenue du Président Kennedy" and it's hard to argue that President Kennedy had much of a role in French history, but President Kennedy did have a significant global role.

That said, we really have no business honouring foreigners until we've honoured our own first and not to have a prominent street named after our first prime minister is a glaring omission - it just shouldn't come at the expense of a street named after someone who was instrumental in Ottawa ultimately becoming a place at where the capital could be built (i.e. without Wellington there would be no impetus and no funding for the Rideau Canal, no Colonel By over here to build it and no reason for the town that grew up around the final lock ladder to be chosen as the capital). Few if any of us would even be here in Ottawa were it not for Wellington because the Canadian capital city would be somewhere else, probably Kingston or Montreal.