How some of Vancouver’s weirdest streets got their names

By Rhiannon Coppin/Vancouver is Awesome
Here’s a rundown on some of the odd street name origins I learned…

While doing some research on street names for an OpenFile story on Vancouver street and public space naming, I learned that although our city’s street names are often based on names of long-dead real estate speculators and their friends, they are just as often based on weird circumstances or personal whims. Here’s a rundown on some of the odd street name origins I learned by visiting the Vancouver Archives and reading the street names notes binders (copies of Major J.S. Matthews’s old note cards), and also by flipping through Elizabeth Walker’s amazing compendium of these names, in the 1999 volume “Street Names of Vancouver.”…

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February 18, 2019

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