@timbray Interestingly, the Primary Care Network has already changed to "qathet", although traces of "Powel River" exist in domain names and email addresses: https://qathetpcn.ca/about-qpcn/
There's been quite a bit of discussion about this. It would be advantageous to computer programmers to keep “BC”. Of the alternatives presented, my favorites are “Bella Coola”, the name of a remote town with interesting etymology, and “Bountiful Chinook”.
@timbray yes the computer thing is an issue but so is the cultural attachment to those initials (is there any other state or province that uses its abbreviation so frequently as a shorthand? It’s hard to think of one).
But yeah after following this idea for the last decade or so, there have been no alternate BC names that seem like they’ve got legs. Maybe it’s time to start trying out names that don’t fit the BC abbreviation and see if there is something that can gain consensus.
@jdd Victoria for sure. Ehhh, I’m less offended with Vancouver, he wasn’t actively evil and (literally) put the place on the map. Having said that we should rename Burrard Inlet, Indian Arm (!), Howe Sound, Fraser River, English Bay, False Creek, Burnaby, Surrey, Richmond, Bowen/Gambier/Keats islands, etc etc
@timbray Given the long list of Canadian placenames to reconsider, the province's name is likely less urgent because it doesn't honour a specific person who perpetrated indigenous genocide (including abducting children to send them to residential schools).
@david_megginson Granted, but it kind of honors both the British colonizers and Christopher Columbus, who was a real asshole in his own way. And also entirely irrelevant to this corner of the continent.
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