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Originally Posted by OTownandDown
What is the status of the land in Montreal/Toronto? Maybe it's because basically all of the land in Ottawa is unceded?
Also, being the home of federal politicians trying to set an example?
Also, on the point of all the meetings and discussions, if the NCC doesn't do this kind of giant bureaucracy money dump for each and every decision, ol' Debbie the NIMBY Queen from Westboro and Fred the NIMBY King from the Glebe gets their t*ts in a knot about not being consulted. They need a nice, private space to yell at somebody. And what better private space than a public consultation on something (otherwise they go to the CBC)
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I made a similar point on the NCC thread, but I wonder if they are just picking random Algonquin words. It would be like honouring the francophone community by calling it pointe de lapin or something like that.
AFAIK the Algonquin people had a river-based economy and either built settlements along the rivers or migrated along the rivers. The top of a cliff would have been of limited value and probably was not a place that held any significance.
Maybe I am wrong, maybe they excavated Algonquin artifacts as part of the construction that showed it was the site of a settlement or had some other purpose. If that is the case it would be nice if they would pick a name related to the actual indigenous use rather than having non-indigenous people randomly picking words.
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