Just when you thought weak Leftists couldn’t get any more insane, along comes this story: Vancouver’s Trutch Street is now šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street:
A round of applause erupted Tuesday in the gallery of Vancouver city council chambers, after the city officially adopted its first street name in hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, the language of the Musqueam First Nation.
But while the council vote on this first-of-its-kind change was unanimous, the sentiment outside of city hall was not.
The Kitsilano road formerly known as Trutch Street is now legally šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street, a name given to the city by the Musqueam First Nation. By Tuesday afternoon, the new name was showing up on Google maps, and new street signs are set to be unveiled within days.
One wonder if locals will now forever refer to this road as “The Street formerly known as Trutch Street”
So we all agree that ” šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm” is pronounced the same as “Trutch”?
Also, how did Vancouver determine that the land in question was the ancestral lands of Musqueam and not some other tribe that they displaced?
Reread the article. Another group is already complaining.
Living on Stolen Land
IT GOES WAY BACK: Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed. “The tracks showed human activity in the area occurred between 23,000 and 21,000 years ago—a timeline that would upend anthropologists’ understanding of when cultures developed in North America. It would make the prints about 10,000 years older than remains found 90 years ago at a site near Clovis, New Mexico, which gave its name to an artifact assemblage long understood by archaeologists to represent the earliest known culture in North America.”
Turns out Clovis Man was living on stolen land.
Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-earliest-evidence-humans-americas.html
I just love the way it rolls off the tip of your tongue…
Tourists are going to think the official language here is a dialect of throat clearing.
Martha, we need a new font!
The ultimate irony is that a paleolithic culture with no written language gets its written language invented and handed down to it by woke colonialist scholars.
Don’t go pointing out irony, it is lost on them. How is that pronounced? Phonetically of course. :0)
It is pronounced “Federally Funded Bovine Excrement”. Trutch Street in Victoria was named after Joseph Trutch, who was the first lieutenant-governor of British Columbia from 1871 to 1876, a real person.
In addition to the ‘no written language’ aspect, they most certainly never had a street in Kitsalano or anywhere else in the Greater Vancouver area.
It wasn’t until the logging began that skid roads appeared.
Downtown Vancouver, 1888; https://localhistory.vpl.ca/list?q=Vancouver%2Bearly+roads&p=1&ps=20
(Thurlow St.)
Still the Queen Charlotte Islands to me. I don’t acknowledge your ancestral land claims.
But I do acknowledge those who burn wagons, churches and forests.
Shit Street.
Shitshow Street.
Kids can sing it:
“Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Shitshow Street…”
I whole heartedly agree with John Robson’s recent article in the Epoch Times
Land acknowledgements: Either give the Land back or Stop Saying it’s Stolen.
The sooner we wake up and address this stupidity the better off we will all be.
The biggest mistake Canada ever made was to not declare war on the so-called “FN”. Maybe we can give it back to them and then fight them for it once and for all.
You couldn’t be more stupid! Change a longstanding name to a word in a language that has no written version that cannot be written in English! How are residents supposed to fill out a change of address???
Come on, Dirtman. Those are just colonists. Nobody cares about them and their little problems.
And no, I’m not being sarcastic.
Given their appalling attitude, if I lived on Trutch Street I’d keep on addressing things “Trutch Street” and let the swivel servants figure it out. We pay them, they should at least work for it.
And I’d put a “TRUTCH STREET!” sign on my front lawn and sell them to all the neighbors. Because nobody says you can’t have a sign on your front lawn. Yet.
Ran it by my FN wife… she prefers Trutch.
But then her ancestry includes Squamish, Matsqui, and Squea but no Musqueam so she might not be as open-minded as Vancouver City Councillors or the cosmopolitan nitwits that elected them.
I can hardly wait for the first 911 call when the frantic caller is asked to spell the street name.
“Ah… meet me at 4th and Arbutus”.
Canada Post doesn’t allow accents on addresses, I wonder how that’s going work?
Not only is this ridiculous, it’s nonsensical.
IF,,, and I mean if,,, council wanted to do this, they should have kept Trutch Street and added another sign below it on the street sign pole, essentially giving it two names. The post office would figure it out, and either group, those in favor of the name change and those against could use it, to give directions, get their Amazon parcels, without the cost of changing your address to a made up name. Eventually all people would move back to Trutch.
They’ve done that up here on the Sunshine coast…sort of. They’ve done it the other way ’round! Indigenous name first (unpronounceable, even by most of the younger FN people), followed in smaller print by the English name.
It’s pronounced ‘Dumb Asshole Street’.
The upside down triangle is silent.
What kind of society would name streets something intentionally concocted to be unpronounceable in any language used by it residents? It is nothing more than a racially inspired joke on the Eloi that elect the Stockholm Syndrome afflicted. The institutional capture (from the King and SCOC down to the local school boards) is verified by all the groveling morons prostrating themselves to the ploys of the taxpayer-dependent nobility of the grievance industry (laughing their asses off behind closed doors). Such societies are too stupid to survive.
Paraphrased from something I read somewhere earlier today:
Edicts issued by our overlords are not aimed at forcing us to accept something as much as ensuring that no-one really believe anything anymore. Those that can no longer distinguish between Truth and Guile are unable to distinguish between Right and Wrong. After acceding the power to think and judge without understanding or even willing it, anybody can do whatever they want.
As above, so below – Hermetic Emerald Tablet
Geez. Who knew that Romans and Ancient Saxons appropriated the script used by west coast Indian Tribes!
“The Kitsilano road formerly known as Trutch Street is now legally šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street, a name given to the city by the Musqueam First Nation.”
Why was just the street’s name changed when the Musqueam used those sounds to refer to the city?
That’s the Musqueam word that translates to ‘my cat sleeps on my keyboard’.
The same thing happened at Queens University in Kingston. A residence was renamed and it quickly became “The building with the Indigenous name” . I suspect “Queens” will be gone soon and it will become “The university with the Indigenous name”.
Martin Luther King Jr. Way (Formerly Grove Street) … didn’t quite turn out the way the re-namers wanted it. Scroll the photos for the blight, homelessness, and disgusting vistas.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/mlk-way-oakland-berkeley/
But that’s your fault too, whitey.
English is the lingua franca of the business world (just as Latin was the chief language of commerce during imperial Roman times, and French had the same role when France was at the height of its dominance.) Before imperial Rome, it was Greek, and something else before that. Never have the Musqueam people ever been a dominant power, during anytime in history. English has this role because of the British Empire.
Let the Musqueam people become a dominant power and earn the right to use their language as a lingua franca. Until that happens (and it won’t because their language just doesn’t matter to anyone except them), leave the damn street names in the lingua franca, English. They didn’t have an alphabet until English speakers felt it necessary to communicate with them and gave them an alphabet. So unless the street sign comes with phonetic pronunciation key, it will be considered gobbledygook and cause nothing but issues. I hadn’t even heard of the Musqueam First Nation until this story popped up.
If the Musqueam people want a street name in their own tongue, at a minimum let them build the damn street on their own lands. But that would require more effort than bitching and whining on other people’s dime so that won’t happen either.
And this blog could do all of us a service by printing a pronunciation key for the street name. And Google search indicates that we are all making this change to satisfy 1,300 people in total.
Musqueam
musqueam.bc.ca
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Home – Musqueam Indian Band
March 6, 2018 – Musqueam Indian Band has over 1,300 members who have lived in Vancouver and surrounding areas, including the Fraser River Estuary, for thousands of years.
That is a smaller population than a lot of secondary high schools. I don’t see the Musqueam nation becoming an imperial power anytime soon.
My two cents worth. A house divided against itself will not stand. And it all starts with the ability to communicate.
America and Canada have innumerable place names taken directly from native language. Innumerable. Who died and decided it wasn’t enough? Alright then … I’m DONE with “Minneapolis”. I want it renamed Boonesborough!
No … this is all about “land acknowledgments”. And it won’t stop till the last Smith Rd. and North Ln. is purged from every map. Well, at least MY President certified the Gulf of America as an “American” name! Oh! Wait! ‘America’ is derived from Amerigo Vespucci… uggh … an eye-talian navigator. Well … since we’ve eliminated Columbus Day … we might as well eliminate America.
Given the natives did not have an alphabet, somebody went to great lengths to make an unpronounceable word out a word that was pronounceable in its original form. Just to virtue signal. šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm. What kind of fucking keyboard do they use? How do you even pronounce that? Somebody is lost on the concept of communications. I suppose it means “buddydoyouhaveasmoke”.
Just continually take down those signs or cover them with the old street name. That moron Nenshi changed the name of the Langevin Bridge (which wouldn’t even exist if it hadn’t been for Langevin getting the funding for its construction) to “Reconciliation Bridge”. A stupid name which almost nobody uses.
This falls right in line with Leftist thinking. To them, this is a monumental effort that displays their superior caring nature. It’s just another version (a more expensive version) of wearing those different colored ribbons on their lapels. It solves nothing. It serves no purpose. It accomplishes nothing other than to display their personal virtues. The fact that they perceive a necessity to do it, inadvertently displays their condescension.
Oh look, the US has 116 different schools and over 1,000 roads named after Martin Luther King, jr. And, as a vast majority of these schools and roads existed prior to the 60’s, they were renamed. And, I like what Martin Luther King jr. stood for.