Why It S Called A Confederation Bridge And Why The Push To Rename It Comes As No Surprise
But this name, and the debate surrounding it, is nothing new. In fact, it was the preferred choice of a committee headed by former island’s Prime Minister Alex Campbell, who in 1996 selected it from a short list of three names from thousands of submissions from across Canada. “Span of Green Gables, Spud Highway, Abegweit, Confederation Bridge, the Fixed Link – there [were] “Many names for it,” said Raymond Sewell, a professor of English at St....