Lauren Beck

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  • Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Encounter and Professor of Visual and Material Culture Studies, Mount Allison University
A sign on Charlotte St., in Sackville, N.B. Women rarely come from places named after women, and the exceptions usually commemorate them differently than men. (Peter Barr)

Women are vastly underrepresented in Canada’s place names

Lauren Beck, Mount Allison University

Far more streets, buildings and public spaces in Canada are named after men than women, despite women making up a majority of the population.

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