The sign has been officially changed and O'Grady Road is now called Dakelh Ti. The city’s roads crews replaced the street signs Monday.
In June 2022, council approved the renaming of O'Grady Road following a request from Lheidli T’enneh Chief Dolleen Logan.
The College Heights area road was named after Bishop John Fergus O’Grady, who was a principal of three residential schools throughout his career, including Kamloops Indian Residential School, where the remains of 215 children were found in unmarked graves.
“The fact that Bishop O’Grady, who O’Grady Road is named for, played a key role in the administration of residential schools in B.C. while deaths and abuse of children occurred, is reason enough to change the name,” said Logan, at the time.
The Lheidli T'enneh chose the new name, which means First Nation Road. The name acknowledges the Dakelh people who attended the school on O’Grady Road and residential schools in general.
Dakelh Ti is pronounced "dack-elth tee". The Lheidli Dakelh dictionary has examples of the correct pronunciation of "Dakelh Ti” online.
