Parks is in the middle of a program to re-examine and rewrite the plaques use to point out places deemed important to Canada's past.
The hiking trail on Yamnuska in Alberta's Bow Valley Wildland Provincial Park, part of Kananaskis Country, is shown in June 2017.
Parks is in the middle of a three-year program to re-examine and rewrite the plaques that the Historic Sites and Monuments Board use to point out places deemed important to understanding Canada’s past. The document says that out of 2,192 historic sites, about two-thirds of plaque texts are fine. Of the remainder, more than 200 are considered high priorities for change.
“Earlier assumptions about Canadian history that have excluded Indigenous people, among others, can no longer be accepted.” She said it’s an attempt to use the latest scholarship to broaden the stories told, not erase familiar ones.
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