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The shore is extremely bold, and has the appearance of chalk cliffs, but I believe they are only white sand. They appeared so well that we talked of building a summer residence there and calling it Scarborough. (Robertson, 1911, p. 180)  \nIn 1793, Elizabeth Simcoe, along with her husband (John Graves Simcoe) and an accompanying surveyor, rowed out onto Lake Ontario and came across the white sand of the local area’s bluffs. Upon seeing it, Simcoe was reminded of Scarborough, England and the bluffs there that defined and constituted the community’s central geographic feature. Already named Glasgow, the area that “appeared so well”was renamed Scarborough by John Graves Simcoe, a name that remains to this day as the official toponym of Toronto’s easternmost borough (The Scarborough Historical Society, n.d.) . I begin with this example of common toponymic renaming for two reasons. First, the ease with which a place is renamed is fundamental to the settler geographic effort and desire to remake space, which functions to deny the long history of Indigenous naming practices ofthe area, in favour of colonial transplants and/or inventions (Razack, 2011; Veracini, 2014) . In the case of Scarborough, what gets obscured are the various names for the area including Ganatsekwyagon (Onondowahgah/Seneca) to make way for the colonial fantasy of planting European toponyms as markers of dominion (Centre for Community Mapping, 2015; Turner, 2015) .1 Second, this consequential and rather easy remaking exemplifies the geographic dynamic of what Stanley (2009) calls the “banality of colonialism” and the pervasive reach of settler historical commemoration across space. Scarborough, for instance, is often taken up in conversation as a toponymic given and insulated from a critical engagement that can help to highlight its contingency and continued success as a product and necessity of settler politics.  \nThis remaking of space and the banality of colonial erasures that allow for the reformation of named lands, I argue, are forgotten in the sometimes myopic focus on the abhorrent few (e.g., Macdonald and Cornwallis) . The latter abhorrent group, I suggest, come to, in the landscape of public thought and opinion pieces, monopolize critical efforts and position settler dominance as an isolated event rather than endemic in contemporary Canada. In response, I suggest that social studies scholars and pedagogues would be wise to read “more broadly” across  \n1 Interestingly, as Rayburn (1999) argues, Scarborough’s original colonial toponym, Glasgow, was renamed to Scarborough because it wasn’t,“‘British’enough to persuade Loyalists to the British crown to settle in Upper Canada”(p. 318) . Separately, it’s worth noting that there doesn’t appear to be a definitive “original” name for what now constitutes Scarborough and instead, Ganatsekwyagon is the name of a village that was situated at the mouth of the Rouge River (which cuts through Scarborough) . Here, then, I acknowledge the tenuousness and limitedness of the original name offered. Indeed, as Celia Haig-Brown (2009) reminds us, this is further complicated by the fact that numerous Indigenous nations have occupied these lands at various times (and continue to do so) .  \nSmith, 2017 Canadian Social Studies, Volume 49, No. 1  \nspace and engage the settler geographic project of spatial dominion and erasure by looking at what critical toponymers call the “city-text” and the role of street names in (re)producing settler histories of place.2  \nThe City-Text: Readin","cbCaih6kEZvMeHGb","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaih6kEZvMeHGb","pdf",1891910,"English","# Reconsidering the Summer Residence\n## The City-Text: Reading Settler Toponymic Reach","[{\"question\":\"What does the article use Scarborough to illustrate?\",\"answer\":\"It illustrates how easy toponymic renaming can support settler efforts to remake space while obscuring Indigenous naming practices.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author emphasize the “banality of colonialism”?\",\"answer\":\"Because the paper argues that colonial commemoration and erasures become normalized through everyday practices, reducing critical attention to their ongoing political effects.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the “city-text” in the author’s argument?\",\"answer\":\"It refers to how maps and street-name systems represent the past and reproduce settler histories of place, organizing particular moments and actors as meaningful and often heroic.\"}]","Reconsidering the Summer Residence - The City-Text, Historical Commemoration and Banal Settler Geography | PDF",1792086240,15]