A little more than a week ago on the summer solstice, Canada’s National Indigenous Peoples Day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the space behind him would become an Indigenous Centre. The building is the former US Embassy and has been unoccupied for almost twenty years. It has a direct relationship to Parliament Hill.
Ottawa, ontario and canada are place names based on indigenous words. I am currently working on a project to create maps that only include the conventional contemporary names for regions and locations which are based on indigenous words.