A city working group met for the first time Monday to consider the merits of a request to change the name of Ryerson Park in Owen Sound.

The city removed the Ryerson Park sign in 2021, after receiving a petition signed by nearly 1,000 people to rename it. At that time, the discovery of what was believed to be children’s graves at a Kamloops, B.C., former residential school site shocked the country.

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Egerton Ryerson was education superintendent of Upper Canada in the mid-1800s and is considered the primary architect of Canada’s disastrous residential school system.

But the park’s name was never officially changed. This past May, city council received its first request to rename a city park under its new renaming policy, and appointed councillors Marion Koepke, Jon Farm

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