Finally a hit on the Queen Charlotte Islands

Congrats to JADE11 who got a hit on the Queen Carlotte Islands. I believe that is the first one.
-dr

Would be interesting to know how it got there. Now all we need is some bills entered and a hit in Nunavut. Would be good, I feel like they are left out.

I can believe that it is the frist hit there. After all, no one lives there, just like Nunavut.

Kaiser, to be politically correct you shouldn't say noone, a lot of indigenous peoples live there, the Haida langauge group, and in fact soon the islands will be known by their Native name Haida Gwaii, with specific areas such as Gwaii Hanas…and people live in Nunavut too!

I know that they live there. Its just that even for Canada, no one really lives there. Its scarcely populated. Almost the exact opposite of somewhere like Tokyo or Mexico City.

And I knew that the Queen Charlettes are going to have a name change. Already some of my school books say it(which is scary since they're hobbibly outdated). Its whether people use the native name or not is the big thing. Take Greenland, its real name is Kaalatitt Nuunat or something(been that way since 1979), but its called Greenland. Or Burma. Even though the military dictatorship changed it to Myanmar, its still refered to as Myanmar(Burma). Even though a dictatorship renamed the place, it should go by that name, not the name the Americans want. I personally think they want Burma because its easier to say than Myanmar.

Yeah, that makes sense. Canada though I think will embrace the new term, though because of our ties to the English Monarchy, some Canadians may be wary of its acceptance. So what to choose? To accept the name given by those who have resided on the land for probably about 10,000 years, or to those who colonized and missionized it about 100 years ago?

As a side note: Americans are conrtol freaks, they are too involved in foreign politics and not enough in their own political economy. Note, Americans always use different terminology than we do, Ca: reserves, USA: reservations, Ca: First Nations (though Indian is still a correct legal term when refering to the indian act), USA: Amerindians, Indians. Anyway that was completely off topic, and I'll probably be told that it should've gone in the general discussion section, Oops!