Cecil Rhodes

• Winnipeg School Division announces new name for Cecil Rhodes School

  The Winnipeg School Division elementary school will sport a new name come September following a year-long process to disassociate with the school’s controversial namesake.

  Education

  May 4, 2022
  
• Winnipeg School Division reaches final stage for renaming Cecil Rhodes

  Starting in 2021 the Winnipeg School Division has been looking at changing the school's controversial namesake.

  Education

  Feb 28, 2022
  
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• Winnipeg school board votes to remove name of Cecil Rhodes from local school

  Cecil Rhodes School on Elgin Avenue was the subject of a petition to change its name in light of its namesake's history of racism and advocating white supremacy.

  Education

  May 5, 2021
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• Plaque bearing name of controversial British colonial icon covered up at Vancouver school

  Critics say Cecil Rhodes was an early architect of South Africa's racist apartheid system, and his name shouldn't be on a Vancouver school.

  Jun 11, 2019