Fun fact: First Nations in the area kept slaves. Chief Maquinna had slaves, and has all sorts of things named after him.
Maquinna is notable also for having kept European slaves on a number of occasions. The most detailed account is told in the writings of John R. Jewitt, one of two slaves kept for several years after the crew of the ship Boston was massacred by Maquinna and his men.
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Maquinna has been memorialized in various ways:
Maquinna Marine Provincial Park which contains Hot Springs Cove.
Maquinna Elementary School in Port Alberni.
Chief Maquinna Elementary School in Vancouver
Maquinna is an active submarine mud volcano located 16-18 kilometers west of Vancouver Island.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaquinnaSo, is it the holding of slaves that is bad enough to get your statue ripped down and the street renamed? Is the slave owning secondary to being a slave owner who was on the “winning side”? Seems that owning slaves,in and of itself, isn’t enough to have the person deemed evil.... they had to have been the colonizers as well.
First Nations of Canada routinely captured slaves from neighboring tribes. Slave-owning tribes were Muscogee Creek of Georgia, the Pawnee and Klamath, the Caribs of Dominica, the Tupinambá of Brazil, and some fishing societies, such as the Yurok, that lived along the coast from what is now Alaska to California.[95] The Haida, Nuu-chah-nulth, Tlingit, Coast Tsimshian and some other tribes who lived along the Pacific Northwest Coast were traditionally known as fierce warriors and slave-traders, raiding as far as California and also among neighboring people, particularly the Coast Salish groups. Slavery was hereditary, with new slaves generally being prisoners of war or captured for the purpose of trade and status. Among some Pacific Northwest tribes about a quarter of the population were slaves.[12][96][97]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_the_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas#Indigenous_enslavement_of_indigenous_peoples
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