The spotlights on the stage at the Shawnadithit Centennial Field (it's official name) have been turned off and the over 20,000 fans who attended the Kiss concert have gone home.
Columnist
Andrew Barker
As most of us are aware Shaunawdidhit aka, Nancy April was the last of Beothuks who died in St Johns of tuberculosis as reported on June 6, 1829 at the age of 26.As a commemoration to the Centennial of Confederation a permanent Memorial was established in 1967. The monument was suppose to stand as a lasting Memory to Shaunawdidhit last of the Beothuks in Newfoundland.
Thank you to Columnist Andrew Barker for referencing Centennial Field in the proper context.If you have noticed the monument dedicated to Shawnadithit by the Town of Grand Falls now Grand Falls-Windsor and both the Provincial and Federal Governments is crumbling. If nothing is done about it I guess it will fall into dis-repair. Is this what this current council is hoping for? I have been harping on this issue for a couple of years now with no resolution.From what I am hearing they are saying there is no records of this monument in Town files. The town fathers of the day 1967 were still perhaps in the first term as a town and council when this monument was dedicated and no records were keep. It is kind of fool hardy though when the Towns name is insribed along side of the other two levels of Government who erected it.
If more people started using the proper name Shawnadithit Centennial Park, maybe the town would repect the name Shawnadithit and change its signage. Maybe it is time to send a letter to local schools explaining what the real name of Centennial Field really is, Shawnadithit Centennial Park. Just maybe then will Shawnadithit get her place in our Towns history by the doing of our children.
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