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Native Land, Whose Land? and Indigenous BC are all available for download

Cascade Mountain, Tunnel Mountain, Sulpher Mountain and Mount Rundle are colonial names that replaced Indigenous ones

“I think that any name that was known to be used by Indigenous people in the past trumps a colonialist name” – Colin Haley

It was called Waskahigan Watchi before Europeans arrived and renamed it for some Methodist preacher who spent little time in the area

Included is a draft of principles for publishing and creating route names

The following was written by Squamish climber Michelle LeBlanc and first appeared in Gripped’s February/March 2021 issue

Updates to the Squamish Select guidebook have been made including some new route names for old climbs

Bethany Lebewitz, Ashleigh Thompson, Melissa Utomo and Erynne Gilpin hosted an online community discussion regarding prejudice route names, mountain project and climbing culture

Lawyers and officials are working together to rename racist and offensive peak names in the Canadian Rockies

Examples from the Bow Valley and why we need to continually work on finding more inclusive names for peaks, places and route names