Editor:
Re-naming historical points of interest, mobs destroying historical monuments, like Sir John A. MacDonald, shows us a lack of understanding and knowledge.
One must immerse himself in an unfamiliar world, in the case of MacDonald's Canada in the mid 1800’s in order to understand our own.
If you destroy your history, it’s like you never existed. History tells us who we are and how we got here.
Artifacts are visual reminders of what shaped our lives. People need history, it gives them strength, the need to know that real people walked this country.
Most Canadians don’t know their own history. The stories of bravery and heroism are for us all.
It is one country, all ours, and we should be proud of its brave people whose courage and sacrifice made its greatness possible, remembering that there are no perfect men only perfect intentions.
So do yourself a favour and pick up a history book and learn what those that went before you did for your country.
Linda Evans,
Canmore
