Local resident gives his ideas to re-name Gordie Howe International Bridge

Now that Trump has raised the issue of the Windsor-Detroit Bridge, it might be worthwhile to suggest that the bridge be renamed the Ojibway Bridge because it sits on traditional Ojibway land next to two Ojibway parks, the Ojibway National Urban Park and Ojibway Industrial Park in Windsor, and passes by the Ojibway Parkway. 

Prime Minister Harper, a hockey fan, named the bridge on a whim but Howe never played in Canada, only for Detroit, Houston and Hartford, and there is already a Gordie Howe Bridge in Saskatchewan. 

Canada has renamed structures where Indigenous concerns are raised (eg. buildings named after PM MacDonald, Langevin, etc). 

A renaming would promote Truth & Reconciliation.

—Terry Hall

Amherstburg

Local resident gives his ideas to re-name Gordie Howe International Bridge