It’s called Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada, and God bless its straightforwardness: Over years, Margaret Pearce collaborated with dozens of Indigenous groups to resurrect traditional names for places nationwide (my local favourites: ‘At where it is heard approaching,’ somewhere north of what we call Huntsville, or ‘Place of calling silvery waters’ near the Kawarthas). The familiar boundaries of Canada span sea to sea, filled in-between with words. It’s–wait for it–a map, conventional-seeming until viewed up close. “OCADU’s Diagrams of Power: All these maps and it’s still a bit lost,” Review by Murray Whyte,Toronto Star 28 July 2018.Selected for “Diagrams of Power,” Ontario College of Art and Design University exhibition, 11 July-30 September 2018.Selected for Atlas of Design, Volume 4 (North American Cartographic Information Society, 2018).First Place, Thematic Map category, 2017 CaGIS Map Design Competition.
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