Black Creek Pioneer Village to drop ‘pioneer’ from its name as part of inclusivity plan
Black Creek Pioneer Village is getting a new name later this year along with longer-term plans to give a permanent home to an Indigenous exhibit.
As part of its ongoing work to tell more accurate stories about settlement in 19th-century Ontario, the Village has been collaborating with five southern Ontario First Nations to recraft the stories at the museum — and its next phase includes dropping “pioneer” from its name.
“I look at our society as a piece of fabric: it’s got different threads woven through it,” said Wendy Rowney, general manager at the Village. “What museums should do is make sure all those threads are visible again.”
Let’s teach made up history!
h/t Ontario John and Mauser
