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All but one member of city council have signed a notice of motion asking that the Langevin Bridge be renamed the Reconciliation Bridge, “as a sincere act of reconciliation on behalf of all the citizens of Calgary.”

The name change will be debated by council on Monday, and follows calls from citizens to rename the century-old bridge in the summer of 2015, immediately after the release of the damning Truth and Reconciliation Report, which studied abuses of indigenous children in Canada’s residential school system.

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The downtown bridge, which spans the Bow River between 4th Avenue S. and Memorial Drive, was named after Hector-Louis Langevin — a Father of Confederation and a key player in the development of the residential school system that the commission report called an act of “cultural genocide.”

The notice of motion, which is signed by Mayor Naheed Nenshi and 13 councillors, states Canadians must acknowledge and understand the past, “both the good and bad.”