Editor:
Thank you and I completely agree with your point and your editorial this week. We really need to fix this right now.
While we're at it, let's take a closer look at the double black diamond run on the back side of Lake Louise ski hill called Brown Shirt. Skiing there today, I saw how the new Summit chairlift is going to access this area giving it a lot more traffic and attention than ever before.
Funnily enough, many folks think Brown Shirt is a reference to maybe a UPS driver, or someone who’d wear a brown shirt at work like a janitor. For Lake Louise, the original ski patrollers wore brown shirts.
But Brown Shirt is also another term for a Nazi.
I mean, I've been skiing Lake Louise for 25 years and I've always wondered, why did they name it that? I don't even get the connection between a war criminal and a ski run. All I know is, I feel humiliated when I say it out loud. I feel badly for saying it.
We can all do better than this. It's time to do better, for each other and for ourselves.
It is indecent in my opinion.
On the chairlift, when I have to refer to that run as it is named, I feel ashamed. Humiliated to say something like that out loud.
Can't you feel that in your heart? This is not OK.
I absolutely agree with you the editorial, it is time to change some of the names around here. Keep this going, keep people on a roll of open mindedness, human consideration and respect.
No more humiliating misogynistic references to female anatomy or our local Indigenous culture.
No more humiliating and inhumane references to the western world's lack of humanity.
Some names are not just "some name."
It's just not OK anymore. Period.
Julie Vincent,
Canmore
