Change Kitchener's name back to Berlin?

[jeffster]

All we have to do is find someone with the surname Kitchener who has done something moderately good for society and officially declare that the city is named after him or her. According to 411.ca there are 38 people with the surname Kitchener within 300 miles of here. Maybe one of them or one of their ancestors is worthy of having something named after them. This would work for any cities or streets named after dodgy historical people.

This works for common names - a good example is King County, Washington (home to Seattle) which had been named for someone whose reputation did not hold up; they chose to honor Rev. Martin L. King Jr, in their place.

Kitchener is a rarer name, not sure we can pull that off as easily.

Funny you mentioned King, because someone had mentioned that 'apparently' there is some nasty dirt on him as well. As I said, unavoidable. That said, King County isn't well known to too many people, as we refer to that area as Seattle. I think the closest it got was "Kingdome" where the Mariners used to play. You name it after any famous person, you run that risk.

I like the idea of perhaps, if a name change was to happen, to find a name of a well known city outside Canada, and take on that name. Glasgow? New York? Kansas? Sydney? Back to Berlin? I don't know. Find a name that isn't directly connected to a human. And something that might have historic ties to K-town. What major city, without a negative history, sounds good?