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Proposed renaming of Dundas Street

Did anyone care when the names of many of the streets inside Exhibition Place were all changed at once from Baden-Powell, Byng, Grey, Dundonald, Aberdeen, Strathcona, Hutton, Beresford, Lorne, Connaught, and Dominion, to the names of the provinces and territories?
 
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Did anyone care when the names of many of the streets inside Exhibition Place were all changed at once from Baden-Powell, Byng, Grey, Dundonald, Aberdeen, Strathcona, Hutton, Beresford, Lorne, Connaught, and Dominion, to the names of the provinces and territories?
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Doubtful, but no one lived or owned a business in there, limiting the disruption such a name change could have caused.
 
This post is Post #1 in this thread and shows the dangers of renaming anything! (Of course, in 2011 the idea was simply a new name not to expunge a name due to its connotations!)

Dundas station seen as ideal candidate for a name change; Ryerson University a likely partner, says TTC chair
The Globe and Mail
Wed Jul 6 2011
Byline: Elizabeth Church
File: TTC

****summarized for quick read***

Dundas station will be the test case for plans by the Toronto Transit Commission to sell naming rights, and the head of a nearby University says he is keen to talk.

Ryerson University was singled out as a potential partner for the project. The school’s president, Sheldon Levy said his campus would benefit from a station upgrade and might be willing to raise funds or partner with the private sector to make that happen.

The university, he said, is especially interested in creating a new access point at the north end of the platform.

The University has not sat down with the TTC to discuss a deal or put a dollar figure on what it would cost to name a station.
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Ryerson's proposal was great, actually, in this specific case, and what better time to reconsider this than now. If this were revived, TTC has one less station to rename and Ryerson, itself in the renaming process, will get to put its new name out there at a station directly served by it. If this is renewed, Ryerson will have the opportunity then to get a better station connection to the main campus (rather than having to go around 10 Dundas Street and the dank Victoria Street garage).

What I don't want are corporate names on stations, especially where there's no specific geographic point. Philadelphia's Pattison Station (where the sports venues are) and Market East station (one of the two regional rail hub stations) were both renamed for corporations, with Pattison on its second branded name already now. At least "Barclays Center" is added to the NYC Subway station name, rather than replacing Atlantic Ave, and it is at least a landmark at that location.
 
Humm.... Instead of Dundas Subway Station, it could be renamed to Toronto Metropolitan Subway Station. 😄
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Wait! They just might!

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From link.
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A friend who works at UofT in the applications and admissions team says:

"our students are easily confused as it is, this is not helping"

Because you know it's going to be shortened to "Toronto University" which will sit only a few blocks from "University of Toronto"
Even with acronyms, people will get TMU and UMT confused.
 
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Jonny5 said:
A friend who works at UofT in the applications and admissions team says:

"our students are easily confused as it is, this is not helping"

Because you know it's going to be shortened to "Toronto University" which will sit only a few blocks from "University of Toronto"
Even with acronyms, people will get TMU and UMT confused.
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Wonder if they'll consider suing or blocking their application for trademark? Brand confusion is no joke.
 
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