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Support for changing B.C.'s name on the decline: poll (www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com)

submitted 10 months ago by LimpRimble to c/britishcolumbia

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Though indirectly, it's named after Columbus... as in Christopher Columbus

[–] BCsven 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Not really, it is named after the Columbia River, named after the ship that found the mouth, the Columbia Rediviva.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Columbia, from Columbus, has always been a common poetic name for the US and it's this that the ship is named after. The name of BC is one of many on the continent that ultimately derives from Columbus

[–] BCsven 2 points 10 months ago

Sure if you stretch it. But BC wasn't named aftet Columbus "discovering" it. Changing the name to remove a a non-connection is just putting glitter on shit