Visit The TC Douglas Building While You Still Can

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A pub in a building where Sir John A. Macdonald once had his law office is dropping a reference to Canada’s first prime minister from its name after receiving requests to do so from members of the Indigenous community.
The Scottish pub in Kingston, Ont., once known as “Sir John’s Public House,” will now be called “The Public House,” its owner said, noting that a new sign was being erected Tuesday.

Along with a white flag.
(h/t Captain Obvious)

34 Replies to “Visit The TC Douglas Building While You Still Can”

  3. I remember, quite a long while ago, hearing the translated account of an elderly Canadian native women talking of another tribe slaughtering her village, specifically describing torture, rape(including herself),and taking the survivors as slaves. I suspect that I still remember it these many years later because it was such a chilling account.
    I believe she was Cree or Iroquois, maybe they were the attackers, sorry, honestly don’t remember which. My point being, we should uncover every Canadian tribes’ horrible human rights transgressions and then ban them from our history accordingly.
    I suggest this because I understand how vitally important the concepts of ‘inclusion’ and ‘equality’ are to all leftards.

  5. If anyone would like to, er, order some takeout haggis from this fine establishment, they could call
    (613) 766-9296

  7. I doubt much history is being taught in our schools today, too offensive. For those of us who were taught history or were curious enough to look it up for ourselves,Indian tribes fought each other and wiped out whole tribes of their own people. Question is, if it were not for interventions by the white man would they have survived at all?
    It’s time for a counter protest, see if that works as a reality check. It won’t happen of course, it might offend someone.

  8. Scotsmen, they thrust a great insult on your native sons. Scotsmen, avoid the place. It can become an Indian bar.

  9. A counter protest would be people avoiding this pub. I think that could happen — at least in the short term. It is a shame when businesses are trapped in these political issues which for them are often a no-win situation. Do the native people themselves not have more serious issues to attend to. My objection is that I think most native people do not care about the use of the name Sir John A — until some activist group holds it up as a symbol. This unfortunately tends to distort the situation (e.g. failure to grasp the historical context) and it makes people mad, fueling further divisions. Many otherwise neutral people get PO’ed by this type of thing. Natives need to take that into consideration and deal with their real issues, not phony PR issues. Who exactly did not feel safe in this pub? Likely no one, but since the issue has been raised, I can see a lot of resentment from regulars.

  10. To remove the shame over our clearly white, patriarchal and genocidal past, we’ll ultimately have to rename everything that might offend somebody about something.
    I suggest we get a head start right now.
    We can begin by renaming Canada “Post-National State”. Ottawa could become “Federal Capital City”. Everything else can be renamed using a system like the postal code or just numbers.
    How much less offensive Vancouver sounds when it is just “PNSC13W”.
    And that pub in Kingston, er, I mean PNSC41C, could become “PNSC41C-Licensed Establishment-16”.
    Does that sound stirring or what?

  11. Perhaps the commission members that have resigned are not comfortable with seeing how some people are more guilty than others?
    Are the missing and murdered indigenous women being murdered by the wrong demographic group?
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/lawyer-mmiwg-quits-1.4412127 … caution, CBC link.
    The RCMP stick their foot in it…
    http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/most-murdered-and-missing-aboriginal-women-victims-of-indigenous-perpetrators-rcmp

  12. Probably the Iroquois attacking the Algonquins. The Iroquois were cannibals too.
    I wonder how the Indians will react when these foreign cultural niches get their way, legacy Canadian culture is all torn down, and these foreign cultures dump the Crown Indian treaties in the trash bin of history along with the Legacy Canadian culture that signed them.
    boo-frickin’-hoo, eh?
    By-the-bye, here in Western Canada the Cree and various Lakota/Teton/Sioux still despise one another and are as likely to kill each as look at the other.

  13. It really is too bad that Canadians have become such cowards about the history of the country. I bet Justin and the progressives can’t wait until Canada celebrates it’s first anniversary of the adoption of Sharia Law.

  14. It is Kingston, I think the demographic of that place has changed a lot even since Flora MacDonald, a Red Tory, held that seat politically. It is also a University town. I would be surprised if there is any counter protest there. However it is really larger than that,it’s important that this be used as an example of where we are headed as a country.
    We should hope it goes national…bus loads of people protesting from other parts of the country, make it know that our history is not going to be expunged by any group of malcontents..

  15. Exactly!! I was about to question whether he serves lots of firewater to his indigenous patrons …

  17. Perhaps it would be more of a “safe space” for sensitive Indians if the owner would add a Cigar Store Indian to the porch. If not, it would at least be more in keeping with his phony “market” pandering.

  18. What the general public seems to be oblivious of, (along with EVERYTHING else, one might say), is that these groups/progressives fully intend to attack EVERY part of Canadian culture/history under one pretext or another.
    There are two choices, shut them up, or capitulate completely in one go and save time.

  19. This is exactly what is going. Soon it will be School #1, School #2, 1st Reformed Hospital, 2nd Reformed Hospital. You get the drift.
    Now, quiz time, where have we seen happen before?

  20. “I’ll take ‘Caving In to PC’ for 500, Alex.”
    [Name a Pub Not to Frequent When in Kingston, Ontario]
    ….Fill in Answer Here _____.

  21. When will the first nations start paying reparations for all the whites and blacks they held as slaves? And the slaves they made of surviving Indians after a local genocide commited by some savages up river? Call these red privileged bastards out.

  22. Oh no, more people doing as they wish with their private property…
    There outta be a law…

  24. I doubt there is one in the place. Kingston is a government/university town. Lots of vibrant people, not too many Indians. W T F, the freakin captcha is upside down and backwards. Do you spell it the right way or the wrong. Man this is really getting stupid.

  25. To stradivarious – Oh no, people exercising their right to freedom of thought and expression… there ought to be a law…

  26. To stradivarious – Oh no, people exercising their right to freedom of thought and expression… there ought to be a law…
    That’s what I just pointed out… lol
    Although, hot air is a little more cost free…

  27. I am angry, then shocked and saddened but still outraged that this man this Paul Fortier of Jessop Foods, owner of Sir John’s Public House in Kingston has the temerity, the insensitivity, to appropriate my culture, my heritage and describe his little retail business as a Public Bar.
    As an Englishman, my country, my history, my heritage gave rise to the Pubic Bar and the Publican those places hold an ancient and sacred place in the hearts and souls of Englishmen everywhere. Enough with this fake make belief this cashing in on our culture and heritage there is nothing about the establishment from what I can see that resembles a Public House, a place for all sections and levels of class of the English to join together as equals and enjoy the fruits of their daily labour and imbibe handcrafted ale made with clear water, malted barley and hops.
    This ancient practice and social interaction is being brought into complete and utter disrespect by this establishment and its culturally insensitive use of the word Public Bar I demand it cease forthwith and call its self something more akin to its manner and type of trading which most certainly is not as a public bar.

  28. …my heritage gave rise to the Pubic Bar…This ancient practice and social interaction is being brought into complete and utter disrespect by this establishment…
    Okay then…lol

  29. Fortier noted, however, that there will still be exhibits and memorabilia related to the prime minister in the pub.

    Poor little naif thinks that the SJW’s will be satisfied with the name change. Waiting for the other shoe to drop.

  30. Trudeau and the elite are happy!
    Have to post this again
    Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day, minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.
    George Orwell 1984

  31. Truly a case of pygmies nibbling at the ankles of giants here. Among other achievements, Macdonald’s vision and encouragement allowed the formation of the first transcontinental, bicultural, parliamentary confederation, an original Canadian concept. He also planned and oversaw the building of a transcontinental railway in the 19th century (Liberal governments in Ont struggle to build a few miles of urban transitway). Voters at the time awarded him 6 majority governments.
    In any reasonable assessment, these commendable accomplishments would warrant Sir John A the title of
    founder of Canada. But for naysayers that isn’t enough; he doesn’t deserve a school, or even a pub named after him.

  33. And “Squaws Along the Yukon” used to get female Indians whooping. Those were the days, my friend.

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