Renaming Ryerson University: Canadian historical culture today is a palimpsest, or possibly palindromic, as First Nations attempt a palingenesis

palimpsest: 1 a piece of writing or manuscript on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for other writing. 2 a place, experience, etc., in which something new is superimposed over traces of something preceding it.

palindrome: a word or phrase that reads the same backwards and forwards, e.g. rotator, or nurses run [Greek palindromos running back again].

palingenesis: 1 regeneration, rebirth.

Canadian Oxford Dictionary (2001)