Editor:
Re: “District of Sechelt removes Davis Bay interpretive signs,” June 11.
Removal of historical signs with factual historical information should not occur unless their content is egregious. If relevant or important particulars have been omitted, an explanatory plaque should be erected next to it.
The Davis Bay signs told of interesting early explorers on the Sunshine Coast and were quite informative. Incomplete historical signs on the Coast should be accompanied by supplemental data, such as that relating to the shíshálh Nation and their history, and to deal with and strongly condemn the colonization which caused so much distress and sorrow to Indigenous Peoples.
Statues of controversial historical figures should be treated in a similar manner, and not torn down but put in proper context by supplemental historical facts. One qualification is that if the existing signs and statues are heinous such as, for example, a statue of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald on the grounds of an Indian residential school site, it should be removed.
Nothing herein is revising history, but adding to it.
George and Terry Goulet, Sechelt
