Today's letters: Name that footbridge after Flora MacDonald

Flora MacDonald deserves her footbridge
Re: Why we shouldn’t fawn over a footbridge named Flora, July 21.
What a disappointing rant by Kelly Egan against the naming of the new canal footbridge after Flora MacDonald. “Hardly anybody,” he says, would associate her with the canal. Instead, he proposes — for example — Frank Amyot, a 1930s’ athlete who is “not a well-known figure today.” Egan’s concern seems to be that we have foolishly