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</style><title>11 Quebec sites that contain the N-word to be renamed | CBC News</title><div class="original-url"><br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/11-quebec-sites-that-contain-the-n-word-to-be-renamed-1.3245106">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/11-quebec-sites-that-contain-the-n-word-to-be-renamed-1.3245106</a><br><br></div><div id="article" role="article" style="-webkit-locale: "en"; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="system exported">
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<div class="page" style="text-align: start; word-wrap: break-word; max-width: 100%;"><h1 class="title" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.95552em; line-height: 1.2141em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; text-align: start; display: block; max-width: 100%;">11 Quebec sites that contain the N-word to be renamed</h1><figure style="max-width: 100%; font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: -apple-system-font; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65); margin: 0px;"><div style="max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.3184474.1443275696!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/nigger-rapids.jpg" class="" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0.5em auto; display: block; height: auto;" data-unique-identifier=""></div><figcaption style="max-width: 100%; margin-top: 0.8em; width: 100%; font-size: 0.75rem; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);">The official name of these rapids on the Gatineau River south of Maniwaki, Que. includes a racial slur but they will now be renamed.<!-- --> <!-- -->(CBC)</figcaption></figure><p style="max-width: 100%;">The Quebec Toponymy Commission has ordered name changes for 11 sites in the province that contain the N-word.</p> <p style="max-width: 100%;">The commission recognized six place names that include the N-word in English and five that include the word nègre, which in French can mean both Negro and the N-word.</p> <p style="max-width: 100%;">Friday's decision is a victory for Rachel Zellars, a PhD student at McGill University who started a petition to get the names removed.</p> <ul style="max-width: 100%;"> <li style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/quebec-considers-removing-n-word-from-11-place-names-1.3184317" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Quebec considers removing N-word from 11 place names</a></strong></li> </ul> <p style="max-width: 100%;">One of the sites, situated along the Gatineau River, is called Nigger Rapids. It was named for a black couple who drowned there in the early 1900s.</p> <p style="max-width: 100%;">A hill 50 kilometres south of Montreal near the U.S. border contains the N-word in its name. It's the site where black slaves were buried from 1794 until slavery was abolished in 1833, according to the commission.</p> <p style="max-width: 100%;">In Quebec's Laurentides region, the commission has recognized three rapids along the Red River that have the N-word in their names, but it does not detail the origin of the names on its website.</p> <p style="max-width: 100%;">The Niger River, near Sherbrooke, was officially spelled with two g's between 1986 and 2006. According to the commission, it was named for the large presence of African-Americans along its banks in the early 19th century. The river is believed to have been used by those fleeing slavery in the United States.</p> <p style="max-width: 100%;">There's also Lac du Nègre and Ruisseau du Nègre in west Quebec, Rivière du Nègre near Drummondville, Le Buttereau-du-Nègre on Îles-de-la-Madeleine and Lac à Ti-Nègre near Shawinigan.</p> <p style="max-width: 100%;">The commission said even though the names have historical meaning, the terms are now pejorative and must be changed.</p></div></div></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone please read this article it shares the renaming of different bodies of water which this comment hinged upon. Sent to me by another member</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Blessings…</div></body></html>