The new name will be HEL,HILEȻ (hul-he-look), which means “place of gladness” in SENĆOŦEN
A group of Indigenous youth who wanted Pioneer Park in Brentwood Bay to be renamed got their wish when Central Saanich council approved their request this week.STIWET Elliott, a SENĆOŦEN immersion teacher at WSÁNEĆ Leadership Secondary School, said the idea to rename the park came after some in the community suggested the previous name felt colonial and inappropriate.
“The feeling to make that change really built after we walked down there and that’s when we said: ‘We’re going to make a change here,’ ” Elliott said. Students then wrote letters to council in SENĆOŦEN, with an English translation, advocating for the name change, and met with councillors, he said.
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