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The former Ryerson University has officially changed its name to Toronto Metropolitan University.
The school's board of directors voted last August to change the school's name over concerns about the man the institution had been named for and his links to Canada's residential schools.
Egerton Ryerson is considered one of the primary architects of the residential school system and, in recent years, staff and students had been calling for the university to change its name.
"I cannot think of a better name than Toronto Metropolitan University," said President and Vice-Chancellor Mohamed Lachemi, in a statement. "Metropolitan is a reflection of who we have always been — an urban institution dedicated to excellence, innovation, and inclusion and who we aim to be — a place where all feel welcome, seen, represented and celebrated."
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thebeautifulbook · 3 months
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MY DOGS IN THE NORTHLAND by Egerton Ryerson Young. (New York/Chicago/Toronto: Revell, 1902)
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alliellama · 7 months
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we were talking about the canadian school system in english today and the teacher asked if anyone knew egerton ryerson and what he did, and if anyone knew why they changed the name of the former ryserson university. one girl said "didn't he say something racist? or controversial?" and. well. i guess that's technically not wrong. You Could In Fact Say That He Did, Yes.
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dooxlenews · 7 months
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In August 2021, Ryerson University’s board of directors voted to change the school’s name. This ended the institution’s 73-year commemoration of Egerton Ryerson, a 19th century Methodist minister who founded Canada’s public school system—but who was also instrumental in designing Canada’s genocidal residential school system. In April 2022, the school was officially renamed Toronto Metropolitan University, or TMU. But the name change introduced a new problem: what to do with the thousands of pounds of campus merchandise with the old name?  From Ryerson-branded sports jerseys to lanyards, water bottles, coffee cups and stationary, the sheer amount and variety of products… Read more !
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atlanticcanada · 1 year
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Movement rekindled to rename N.B. university connected to 'torturer' of Acadians
A movement has been rekindled in New Brunswick to shed a francophone university's connection to Robert Monckton, a British military figure who played an active role in the imprisonment and deportation of thousands of Acadians.
More than 1,000 people from Canada's Acadian community -- including dignitaries, academics and artists -- have signed a petition to rename Universite de Moncton, the country's largest French-language university outside Quebec.
"We have mobilized and are creating an irreversible movement," Acadian activist Jean-Marie Nadeau said in an interview Tuesday. "There has never been such a large and popular mobilization (on this issue) like the one we have."
The university was founded in 1966 and took the name of the City of Moncton, the location of one of its three campuses and the second-largest city in the province, after Saint John.
Moncton is also home to many of Canada's Acadians, whose ancestors were forcibly deported from the Maritimes after Great Britain won the Seven Years' War. Between 1755 and 1763 approximately 10,000 Acadians were expelled from their land by the British.
Nadeau said the debate to rename the university has resurfaced at least once a decade since the 1970s. The latest revival came after he wrote an essay on Feb. 7 in local newspaper Le Moniteur Acadien calling for the change. About one week ago, Nadeau and Jean-Bernard Robichaud -- rector of the university from 1990 to 2000 -- started a petition on social media to change the name of the school.
Acadian signatories include current and former politicians, chancellors, and lawyers, as well as novelist Antonine Maillet, singer-songwriter Edith Butler, musician Zachary Richard and filmmaker Renee Blanchar.
"We are doing this movement because we are tired of dragging the name of Monckton like a ball and chain attached to our university," Nadeau said. "Monckton was one of our main torturers and executioners-in-chief, responsible for the logistics of the deportation in 1755."
In the letter attached to the petition, Nadeau and Robichaud ask why the people in charge of the university continue to refuse to change the name.
"Is the name of our university consistent with its identity? For the signatories of this letter, the answer is an unequivocal no. You have the power to change this name to reflect the Acadian reality," the letter says.
Representatives for Universite de Moncton did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
The mayor of Caraquet, N.B., Bernard Theriault, also signed the petition. He said that as a French-speaking Acadian who graduated from Universite de Moncton, it's time for change.
"The Acadian community is strong enough today to take on this change," Theriault said, adding that the community had never clearly expressed its desire as strongly as it is doing now.
Nadeau said he was inspired by recent events across the country over the last few years, during which monuments to controversial historical figures were torn down and street names linked to them were changed.
He mentioned the Nova Scotia communities that removed from their property the name of former governor Edward Cornwallis, who issued a "scalping proclamation" in 1749 that offered a bounty to anyone who killed Mi'kmaq men, women or children.
Nadeau also cited the former Ryerson University -- now Toronto Metropolitan University -- which used to be named after Egerton Ryerson, who helped create the country's residential school system.
"So, we are also part of this new movement, and the time is right," Nadeau said. "The Acadian people stand tall and are proud, and by changing its name, l'Universite de Moncton will be one of the most beautiful symbols of this rediscovered pride and dignity."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 8, 2023.
This story was produced with the financial assistance of the Meta and Canadian Press News Fellowship.
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sachkiawaaj · 2 years
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Toronto university changes name amid controversy over Canadian educator's legacy
Toronto university changes name amid controversy over Canadian educator’s legacy
The former Ryerson University has officially changed its name to Toronto Metropolitan University.  The school’s board of directors voted last August to change the school’s name over concerns about the man the institution had been named for and his links to Canada’s residential schools. Egerton Ryerson is considered one of the primary architects of the residential school system and, in recent…
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mtariqniaz · 2 years
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Toronto university changes name amid controversy over Canadian educator's legacy
Toronto university changes name amid controversy over Canadian educator’s legacy
The former Ryerson University has officially changed its name to Toronto Metropolitan University.  The school’s board of directors voted last August to change the school’s name over concerns about the man the institution had been named for and his links to Canada’s residential schools. Egerton Ryerson is considered one of the primary architects of the residential school system and, in recent…
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June 6, 2021 - Native activists tore down the statue of Egerton Ryerson, one of the founders of the genocidal Canadian residential school system, and beheaded it.
Protesters, including survivors of the residential school system, were demonstrating at Toronto’s Ryerson University to honor the 215 murdered indigenous children whose remains were found buried at Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia last month. [video]
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effectiveresistance · 3 years
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Why Saying People Were "A Product of Their Time" is Bullshit
People say that really racist people from our past were a "product of their time", to try to not hold them to some standard of today. They're wrong to do it. I'm not even going to touch on the fact that there were always people in the "dominant" group - the same group as the people who did the oppressing, who disagreed with the ways that people in oppressed groups were being treated. There certainly were. There's always been dissenters, abolitionists etc. and they too were products of their time. Because you know what, you shouldn't need dissent to be centered around white people to be convinced that not everyone felt the same way in that time. That people need that is a symptom of white supremacy in itself. Because you know who else was a product of their time? The slaves who fought back in rebellions and risked lynching or who ran away and risked lynching, or who jumped in the Ocean on the way here, rather than be sold off in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, or who travelled the underground railroad to escape the chains of slavery. They were products of their time. They disagreed with their oppression. So were the First Nations, Inuit, Metis parents having their children snatched from their arms to send to residential schools who fought Royal Canadian Mountain Police, who pleaded to have their children back, who took their children and had their food reserves cut to starvation levels. They were products of their time. They disagreed. So were the little children who ran away from those "schools" because they rather risk dying in the snow or being attacked by animals in the wilderness, trying to get back home than spend another day being tortured and abused. They were products of their time. They saw the horror in how they were being treated. When people say that oppressors were "products of their time" what they're doing is denying agency and even the very humanity to everyone in the group being oppressed. They're not seeing them as thinking, breathing, living people with their own thoughts and mind. The next time someone tells you, "product of their time" remind them, so were the oppressed.
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boskalbim · 3 years
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drapeau-rouge · 3 years
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The head of the statue of Egerton Ryerson, one of the architects of Canada’s residential school system, felled by the people in Toronto - June 6, 2021
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mioritic · 3 years
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Some photos from the Bring Our Children Home march, a memorial for the 215 Indigenous children that were found in unmarked graves at Kamloops Indian Residential School
Marchers later took down the statue of Egerton Ryerson, one of the architects of the residential school system in Canada
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muirneach · 5 years
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i’m pretty neutral on egerton ryerson’s existence but i REALLY fucking HATE that the school he opened? it was called the toronto normal school. like bitch wtf i cannot express my hatred for that name. 
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hummingzone · 3 years
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Parks Canada’s website features Egerton Ryerson — but no mention of his role in creating residential schools
Parks Canada’s website features Egerton Ryerson — but no mention of his role in creating residential schools
Egerton Ryerson was a “combative writer on controversial issues” who was “largely responsible for shaping Ontario’s present school system,” says a biography on a federal government website that mentions nothing about Ryerson’s role as an architect of the Indian residential school system. The text is found on Parks Canada’s online directory of federal heritage designations. Ryerson’s listing is…
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aspumoni · 3 years
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Genealogy
How is Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), 31st President of the United States, 1929-1933, related to -~-~ Egerton Ryerson (1803-1882), chief superintendent of education for Ontario, Canada?
.......................John Spofford + Dorcas Hopkinson
...........................1678-1736 ............1676-1717
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John Spofford ..............................Mary Spofford
1704-1757 ................................................. x-x
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Hannah Tyler ................................ Jacob Barker
1714-x ....................................................1713-1783
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Herbert Hoover ..............................Egerton Ryerson
1874-1964 ............................................1803-1882
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