I was at a meeting this afternoon where the age-old question of what counts as an 'educational resource' came up. As usual, I said 'anything can be an educational resource' and encouraged people to think of educational uses or features as 'properties' of the resource, rather than defining what type of resource it is. A case in point is this map. To my mind, it's a great educational resource, making it clear how the original indigenous population of New Brunswick regarded the land. But it also serves other purposes, for example, "highlighting the continued presence of Indigenous people in New Brunswick." And maybe even it will lead eventually to some places being renamed so they reflect less the province's colonial conquests and more the land and the people the way it was.
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