Change proposed for Vancouver school named after U.K. prime minister with links to slavery

As calls to decolonize B.C. grow against the backdrop of anti-racism and Black Lives Matter movements, NDP MP Don Davies says Gladstone Secondary School needs a new name.

"I think it's time that we looked at renaming institutions of higher learning and other important buildings that have been named after people associated essentially with crimes against humanity and really odious policies," said Davies about the school in his Vancouver-Kingsway riding.

The school's namesake, William Ewart Gladstone, belonged to a family that owned over 2,000 slaves who worked on Caribbean plantations where the Gladstones made their fortune.  

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/change-proposed-for-vancouver-school-named-after-u-k-prime-minister-with-links-to-slavery-1.5608483

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