8-year indigenous parks naming saga headed for city council

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Source That the City of Toronto has been stuck in a quagmire for eight years in its search for an indigenous name for a cluster of parks appears to be, in the view of local politicians, entirely unremarkable. Councillors at Tuesday’s meeting of the economic and community development committee chose not to discuss — much less debate — the city’s inability to confirm a name for a collection of green spaces and trails around the Lower Don. In 2018, some of those same councillors had endorsed “Wonscotonach Parklands” as a collective name for a handful of public parks along the Don River. However, a report prepared for the committee meeting says that eight years later, no one can agree on how to spell Wonscotonach or what it means. That eight-year search for a name, which the report recommends continue until at least 2027, comes even though city hall’s parks and rec division has what...