Although Lorne Power doesn’t live on D’Iberville Street, he strongly believes the name should be changed to that of another Carbonear resident. (Henrike Wilhelm/CBC)
A Carbonear resident is determined to have one of the town’s street names reviewed, as he feels it honours the wrong person — Pierre Le Moyne D’Iberville.
Lorne Power, who doesn’t live on D’Iberville Street himself, believes it’s inappropriate for a street to be named after a 17th century French soldier who came to destroy the town.
“I don’t think it’s fair. What was right 10, 15, 20 years ago, perhaps was OK but society has changed. And we don’t want streets named after people that don’t
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