Thanks to heritage Winnipeg for taking an interest in my blogging and why I do what I do. I was recently featured in a recent post on the Heritage Winnipeg Blog.
It was a long, wide reaching conversation with the author so I had no idea what they were going to take from it and run with. I am pretty happy with the result, (though I really have to work on being more succinct when I speak - some of my quotes are nonsensical.)
One things I wanted to get across was my criticism of some heritage advocates / groups / officials for putting an inordinate amount of time, energy and money into telling the history of a small number of buildings in a tiny number of neighbourhoods over and over again whilst ignoring people, places and events in the rest of the city.
Why have we done a shitty job telling the stories of everyday people,
particularly people of colour, in this city? It is because the Len
Fairchuks and Percy Haynes’ of our town did not run a company from the
penthouse of a five-storey office building in the Exchange District or
live in a 2,500 square foot pile in Fort Rouge
We can do a lot better.
We can do a lot better.
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