cancel-culture – uncoy https://uncoy.com (many) winters in vienna. theatre, dance, poetry. and some politics. Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:56:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://uncoy.com/images/2017/07/cropped-uncoy-logo-nomargin-1-32x32.png cancel-culture – uncoy https://uncoy.com 32 32 Canada’s first Prime Minister is cancelled https://uncoy.com/2021/07/sir-john-a-macdonald-cancelled.html https://uncoy.com/2021/07/sir-john-a-macdonald-cancelled.html#respond Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:03:53 +0000 https://uncoy.com/?p=3626 Canada’s first Prime Minister is cancelled

All information related to Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. MacDonald has apparently disappeared from the Canadian Archives.

Our current website contains information that was written many years ago,” states a notice posted on the website.

Unfortunately, it does not always reflect our diverse and multicultural country, often presenting one side of Canada’s history.

Library Archives Canada acknowledges that some of its online presence is offensive and continues to correct these issues. That is why content that is redundant or outdated will be removed or rewritten.

While Sir John A. MacDonald was not a particularly nice man (he didn’t much like Indians, Chinese or competitors), he did play a very big role in pushing the railroads across Canada. Learning about the bad things we did to the Chinese workers (they died in scores, about 600 out of 15000 total workers) was part of getting through high school.

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