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Social activist Muriel Duckworth at age
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Cornwallis Junior High on Preston Street
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Mikmaq elder suggests renamingschool for DuckworthPaul suggests
late social activists name replace CornwallisBy MICHAEL LIGHTSTONE
Staff Reporter
Sat, Jul 9 - 4:54 AM
The Halifax man who 25 years ago started a drive to
have monuments and other honours to EdwardCornwallis removed has
a suggestion for the
committee that is to consider a new name for
Cornwallis Junior High School.
Mikmaq elder and author Daniel Paul said his
personal preference is to rename the school after the
late Muriel Duckworth, a longtime Haligonian known
nationally as a peace activist and humanitarian. She
campaigned for decades for social justice.
Duckworth died in 2009 at age 100.
"She was a great human rights worker," Paul said
Friday. "A person of that nature would be a great
name."
Duckworth vigorously protested armed conflictsdating back to the
Second World War, which started
when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. She was
still attending peace rallies during the U.S.-led war in
Iraq.
A tireless social activist, friends said she was as
energetic and warm as she was articulate.
Nominated in 2005 among 1,000 women
collectively for a Nobel Peace Prize, Duckworth
had her peace work cut out for her considering that
she lived in a navy port that is home to Canadas
East Coast fleet and welcomes visiting warships.
Paul said hers was the only name that came to mind.
He said Duckworth was someone who "represented
the good in people" and would be "a worthy
candidate."
Among other honours, Duckworth has received the
Order of Canada, the Pearson Peace Medal, the
Governor Generals Award in Commemoration of the
Persons Case (which recognizes the struggle of
women for equality) and several honorary degrees.
According to a Halifax regional school board
spokesman, the school-naming process is led by the
principal.
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"The process calls for (a) committee to submit a list of names
to the board in order of
preference," Doug Hadley said in an email. "The board will
ultimately select one as the new
name."
Last month, the school board voted unanimously to purge
Cornwallis Junior High of its
name after hearing from a Mikmaq board member who argued it
should be dropped.
During colonization by the British in the 1700s, Gov. Edward
Cornwallis put out a bounty for
the scalps of natives, including women and children, vowing to
clear the Halifax area of all
Mikmaq people.
Supporters of the change say the board was right to take the
name off a school because
Cornwallis was involved in ethnic cleansing. Opponents say
people shouldnt try to undo
history to make the sins of the past fit todays mores.
Paul said he knew there would be some backlash after the board
made the move to strip
the schools name.
"Most of it is caused by ignorance of history," he told The
Chronicle Herald.
The board policy on school naming said the procedure will
include public input.
"The process will include a school organization such as a school
advisory council, parent-
teacher association, school steering team and the public," said
the policy. "Also, student
input, appropriate for the age level served by the school,
should be a significant part of the
process."
Hadley couldnt say when the name-change discussion will
begin.
"At this point, no timelines have been set."
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