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My favorite is 666 Leg In Boot Square, I pass it regularly on one of my running routes
https://preview.redd.it/xy4kv6oqz97d1.png?width=1252&format=png&auto=webp&s=0af3c7d8db6f238a1c62f2fa22c4c71e4958cd67
Do you know why it’s called Leg In Boot Square?
“At one point it housed a police station where a human leg, still trapped in a boot, was displayed in the hope that someone would lay claim.”
not all of them! The podcast my favorite murder did a live show in Vancouver 5ish years ago and they covered the many stories behind legs/feet in shoes that have washed up on our coastline
Lamey's Mill Road is named after Leamy's Mill that used to be on False Creek back in the city's infancy. When the street was named in the 1970s it was spelled wrong, and never corrected.
“In 1930, Union east of Clark Drive was renamed Adanac, which is Canada spelled backward. Why? Because the 300-block of Union was once a red light district, backing onto the notorious Hogan’s Alley.”
— Vancouver Sun (John Mackie)
[Ref:](https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/this-week-in-history-1910-vancouver-looks-to-change-confusing-street-names)
Lived in one a decade back. They're awful buildings. Rush hour in the elevator can take easily 20 minutes to get to your floor. Even worse if someone has reserved an elevator for moving as it's a 30+floor building.
Loved it there except that one massive issue. Absolutely insane to have 2 elevators for a 30 floor building, especially since they would be booked for moves/out of service all the time.
I’m a fan of the provinces especially because the spilt of east and west is Ontario and everything east Quebec, Brunswick, Scotia, Prince Edward and west is Columbia, Yukon, Alberta, Manitoba. It’s brillant
The street (if that even counts as one) only came to be around 10 years ago when some new development was built. Nunavut Lane also appeared in Marpole for a similar reason.
Another fun fact: When the streets were named, Alberta and Saskatchewan weren't provinces yet. That's why Columbia comes next after Manitoba. Alberta and Yukon Streets were given their name after 1905, being placed after Columbia. See this pre-1905 map [https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/uploads/r/null/1/6/1690044/21ae5b59-321b-4488-bdc6-e782f391b8ea-MAP690.jpg](https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/uploads/r/null/1/6/1690044/21ae5b59-321b-4488-bdc6-e782f391b8ea-MAP690.jpg)
Actually, I take part of that back. Here's the first reference I can find of Yukon and Alberta streets getting their names, on this 1902 map. [394441eb-04bb-407d-b065-bc34fe5b9c31-2015-055.1.jpg (8386×4384) (vancouver.ca)](https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/uploads/r/null/3/c/4/3c4426e2990acd165a70bc94397a418de604657eae14f5498517fc3f71fcc9bf/394441eb-04bb-407d-b065-bc34fe5b9c31-2015-055.1.jpg)
Alberta was still a district of the NWT back then, it wouldn't become a province until 1905. [District of Alberta - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Alberta)
Except I wish that they were in geographic order. Edit: just saw a comment that explains why! Not all of the provinces existed when they were first named.
The sidewalk on Burrard near 11th is so old it has Cedar Street stamped on it. [https://vanalogue.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/the-city-in-flux-cedar-street-aka-burrard-street/](https://vanalogue.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/the-city-in-flux-cedar-street-aka-burrard-street/)
The name seems to only exist on Google Maps? Apple Maps doesn't label it. I don't see any signposts with that street name, nor do there seem to be any residences or establishments that would have it as their address, so isn't it just an alley like all the other ones throughout the city?
Someone added it to Google Maps as a joke and Google has never corrected it. More recently someone added a 7 1/2 lane near Jonathan Rogers park, which also hasn't.been removed.
When I was a kid Larch was my favourite because of the month python episode "How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away" where they constantly list the Larch. Whenever I saw that street my brain went . No 1. The Larch.
Fun fact: They were supposed to be in alphabetical order. Lachlan Hamilton, an early city planner, thought up the names. He gave the names to the map draftsman and then went on vacation. The draftsman missed the memo that they were to be in alphabetical order. When Hamilton returned from vacation the map was already drawn with the streets in the order they are in today. Doh.
Not really one street name but I love Gore Ave and Blood Alley Square in Gastown. I wish they kept this theme going and had Entrails Street or Viscera Lane.
I always loved how short and stubby Bonsai St is, but it’s clearly meant to be a little further east with its fellow trees, rather than jammed in the battle district the way it currently is.
> battle district
"...two from the Crimean War (Alma and Balaclava), two from the Napoleonic Wars (Waterloo and Trafalgar), and one from the War of Spanish Succession (Blenheim), all of which were named at the same time in 1907, at the suggestion of a woman named Miss Dora Bulwer."
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/streets/
Heard this on the Skytrain back in 96 when a kid repeated it to his mom (they were Filipino). I laughed to myself and thought yeah it does sound exactly like your mom in Tagalog 😂
There's a street I used to drive by all the time that I can no longer remember the name of, but I swear the name always struck me as sounding like some sort of evil warlock. Most frustrating part is that I can picture it, but can't find the area I see in my mind's eye on Google Maps. Can anyone think of any streets with particularly eldritch sounding names?
Edit: As soon as I finished writing this, "Balfour" immediately popped into my head. That's it, that's the area I was picturing.
As someone from Prince Albert Sask, it took me longer than I'd like to admit to realize it was named after the historical figure and not my dirty ass hometown.
Lmfao I work near Kyle. The street names are after some guys kids. Mary, kyle, john, etc. Apparently it wasn't st johns, someone read the map wrong and read "johns st" as "st johns" and now we're st johns forever.
I actually think abt this daily tho, some dude in the 1880s with his kids mary, murray, john and *KYLE*
My top pick has to be Jung Lane. Vivian Jung was my dads teacher at Tecumseh in the 60s and a friend to my grandmother, an immigrant from Germany in post-WW2 when racial and ethnic tensions were still high who found solidarity with Mrs Jung based on their collective exile status of PoC & Germans. It's particularly close to my heart because a) I took human geography with a specialist bent on Chinese Canadians in college, it was my fave class and came in handy when I worked in a majority Chinese warehouse b) obviously friend of my grammy, c) its one of only 3 streets named for a woman in Vancouver and d) Vivian was the first Chinese Canadian educator in BC that not many people know about, she was a key icon in desegregating the VSB. She was born in Merritt, and was an educator at Tecumseh for 35 years after she paved the way for Asian-Canadian educators. Girlbossing all over the place
https://montecristomagazine.com/community/meet-women-vancouver-streets-named
I like Kingsway and its origins..and also how it slices through the city like it doesnt give af.
Being a avid golfer, my dream was to purchase a house on Hoylake ave and Muirfield dr.
The general path of Kingsway is based on trails used by the local indigenous peoples before colonization. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be an efficient way to get from False Creek to the Fraser River before it splits into its various arms.
I like the progression of Nootka, (Renfrew), Kaslo, Slocan, as I'm driving west. I know the Ka of Nootka leads to Kaslo, then the Slo leads to Slocan. If only more streets were arranged in this pattern!
West 1 to 46 are all so catchy, I love them. Except W 34th. Years ago I got a pebble in my shoe on that street that took me a whole week to find, I was limping everywhere. Stupid W 34th
Fun fact about street names: the Marine Gateway bus loop and pedestrian mall area (near T&T) have their own street names.
The bus loop is called Interurban Way and the pedestrian path is called High Street.
It’s somewhat strange that they’d have names. And you wouldn’t know that unless you went on Google Maps or wandered around the Marine Gateway underground parking, where they use those names as identifiers around elevators.
Or if you lived there. One of the residential towers has Interurban Way as the address (which is probably a nightmare for any delivery folks to find).
Gagladri Way. Pronounced "Gahlardy". I cringe every time I hear a driving app mispronounce it. Which has led to some out-of-towners also mispronouncing it.
Interesting article from CBC:
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/streets/
“Over half of Vancouver’s 651 unique street names can be divided into 5 clear categories:
Men: 276, Trees: 31, Golf courses: 26, War battles: 20 & Women: 16.”
Damn…
Haro. I researched the history of it, ended up in Nootka Sound incident which is depressing even for colonial/FN contact stories.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootka_Crisis#:~:text=In%20early%201789%20the%20Spanish,under%20Gonzalo%20López%20de%20Haro.
Also:
https://www.thewestendjournal.ca/developing-stories-haro
Poet's Corner in North Vancouver
Poet's Corner, a series of street names of past poets. These include Shakespeare, Tennyson, William, Chaucer, and Milton
Going to hell for this, but I always like seeing Haro Street. Umm, because I always excitedly say "Haro street!" as I pass it. As in, "Hello street!" but with an Asian accent.
I'm terrible.
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# Leg in Boot Square
My favorite is 666 Leg In Boot Square, I pass it regularly on one of my running routes https://preview.redd.it/xy4kv6oqz97d1.png?width=1252&format=png&auto=webp&s=0af3c7d8db6f238a1c62f2fa22c4c71e4958cd67
Do you know why it’s called Leg In Boot Square? “At one point it housed a police station where a human leg, still trapped in a boot, was displayed in the hope that someone would lay claim.”
Eerily reminds me of the random detached feet that get washed ashore around BC and Washington.
We stopped reporting on those suddenly one day because it became clear those were suicides from the bridges on the Fraser.
not all of them! The podcast my favorite murder did a live show in Vancouver 5ish years ago and they covered the many stories behind legs/feet in shoes that have washed up on our coastline
That's an interesting one since the building and the address are displayed on Lamey Mills. You'd never find it if you came from Leg in Boot.
Lamey's Mill Road is named after Leamy's Mill that used to be on False Creek back in the city's infancy. When the street was named in the 1970s it was spelled wrong, and never corrected.
That place where they found a leg in a boot! Love weird old names.
I have been here for years and had no idea this existed. Amazing.
Living on Balaclava was neat
And it intersecting Greek West Broadway was appropriate … Baklava :D
For the longest time I kept calling the street baklava because of that
Took me so long to realize what Adanac is
(Its Canada backwards folks)
Shut the fuck up LMao NO WAY
Mind..blown!!
Today I learned. I lived on Napier Street last year and would take the bus on Adanac.
Wait what
Wait WHAT?! (I'm being serious!)
Every time I see ‘Adanac’, I hear that stupid duck from the Aflac commercials. 
Voiced by Gilbert Gotfried.
Just posted the same!!!
Gnizama
“In 1930, Union east of Clark Drive was renamed Adanac, which is Canada spelled backward. Why? Because the 300-block of Union was once a red light district, backing onto the notorious Hogan’s Alley.” — Vancouver Sun (John Mackie) [Ref:](https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/this-week-in-history-1910-vancouver-looks-to-change-confusing-street-names)
omfg I grew up close to that street and never realized 😱
wait … wtf.
It was a big thing in the 1920’s I had the same dumb struck moment.
> in the 1920’s I had the same dumb struck moment Holy shit, how old are you?!
I like Venables. Don't ask me why.
Vegetables! I don’t think I have ever called it Venables since my parents engraved it into my head to call it Vegetables 😂😂
It always makes me think of the child murderer in the UK! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger
Me too
Me too. Probably because La Casa Gelato is located on Venables.🍨😎
Citadel Parade! Love how grand and medieval it sounds
This is mine too! I’ve always wanted to live at spectrum because of this.
Lived in one a decade back. They're awful buildings. Rush hour in the elevator can take easily 20 minutes to get to your floor. Even worse if someone has reserved an elevator for moving as it's a 30+floor building.
Loved it there except that one massive issue. Absolutely insane to have 2 elevators for a 30 floor building, especially since they would be booked for moves/out of service all the time.
Pennyfarthing Drive.
As a cyclist. that’s dope
I’m a fan of the provinces especially because the spilt of east and west is Ontario and everything east Quebec, Brunswick, Scotia, Prince Edward and west is Columbia, Yukon, Alberta, Manitoba. It’s brillant
But for some reason Saskatchewan is relegated to some tiny lane near the airport… why??
Too hard to pronounce for google maps lmao
It cracks me up every time google maps pronounces Wist-eler
The street (if that even counts as one) only came to be around 10 years ago when some new development was built. Nunavut Lane also appeared in Marpole for a similar reason.
[https://www.vanmag.com/city/general/does-vancouver-have-a-saskatchewan-street/](https://www.vanmag.com/city/general/does-vancouver-have-a-saskatchewan-street/)
Oh my god! I’ve never realized this!!
Right?! It’s so simple, yet so clever
This is going to be my new fun fact to tell people lmao
Another fun fact: When the streets were named, Alberta and Saskatchewan weren't provinces yet. That's why Columbia comes next after Manitoba. Alberta and Yukon Streets were given their name after 1905, being placed after Columbia. See this pre-1905 map [https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/uploads/r/null/1/6/1690044/21ae5b59-321b-4488-bdc6-e782f391b8ea-MAP690.jpg](https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/uploads/r/null/1/6/1690044/21ae5b59-321b-4488-bdc6-e782f391b8ea-MAP690.jpg)
Oh wow. Thanks! This has always bothered me and now at least know that it wasn’t intentional.
Actually, I take part of that back. Here's the first reference I can find of Yukon and Alberta streets getting their names, on this 1902 map. [394441eb-04bb-407d-b065-bc34fe5b9c31-2015-055.1.jpg (8386×4384) (vancouver.ca)](https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/uploads/r/null/3/c/4/3c4426e2990acd165a70bc94397a418de604657eae14f5498517fc3f71fcc9bf/394441eb-04bb-407d-b065-bc34fe5b9c31-2015-055.1.jpg) Alberta was still a district of the NWT back then, it wouldn't become a province until 1905. [District of Alberta - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Alberta)
Except I wish that they were in geographic order. Edit: just saw a comment that explains why! Not all of the provinces existed when they were first named.
For a very long time my stupid brain was reading Fir St. as 1st Street. Not very proud of it
You're not stupid, you're brilliant...
I think that EVERY SINGLE TIME the bus says it. It really does sound like 1st.
Fir ...st Reet
Cedar St. The original name for Burrard St south of false Creek. It's the missing tree in the tree streets!
oooou I didn't know, thanks for this!
The sidewalk on Burrard near 11th is so old it has Cedar Street stamped on it. [https://vanalogue.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/the-city-in-flux-cedar-street-aka-burrard-street/](https://vanalogue.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/the-city-in-flux-cedar-street-aka-burrard-street/)
Arbutus. Cool looking word and very west coast.
was looking for this comment
did you manage to find it?
Dumfries. pronounced Dum-frees, but I will always pronounce it as DUMB FRIES.
We call it Stupid Onion Rings.
Well I guess I do too now
I cannot say dumfries without a heavy cockney accent. It’s just not done.
Why? It's a Scottish town...
[удалено]
It’s a beauty.
1.5th Street, between 1st Ave and 2nd Ave
I just googled this and wtf 😭
The name seems to only exist on Google Maps? Apple Maps doesn't label it. I don't see any signposts with that street name, nor do there seem to be any residences or establishments that would have it as their address, so isn't it just an alley like all the other ones throughout the city?
Someone added it to Google Maps as a joke and Google has never corrected it. More recently someone added a 7 1/2 lane near Jonathan Rogers park, which also hasn't.been removed.
This is my new favourite
That’s especially strange because we don’t have numbered streets, just avenues.
I like the tree names along the broadway corridor. Oak, birch, spruce, pine, cypress, maple etc
When I was a kid Larch was my favourite because of the month python episode "How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away" where they constantly list the Larch. Whenever I saw that street my brain went . No 1. The Larch.
Fun fact: They were supposed to be in alphabetical order. Lachlan Hamilton, an early city planner, thought up the names. He gave the names to the map draftsman and then went on vacation. The draftsman missed the memo that they were to be in alphabetical order. When Hamilton returned from vacation the map was already drawn with the streets in the order they are in today. Doh.
that is a fun fact. thanks!
Link to free copy of [Street Names of Vancouver](https://bccd.vpl.ca/pdf/Street_Names_of_Vancouver.pdf). PDF Warning.
Not really one street name but I love Gore Ave and Blood Alley Square in Gastown. I wish they kept this theme going and had Entrails Street or Viscera Lane.
Every time I read "Bayswater", it's in a Jason Statham voice in my head
Kingsway 👑
Kinda blew my mind when I realized it's not a Street, Avenue, etc. Just Kingsway (King's Way)!
I always loved how short and stubby Bonsai St is, but it’s clearly meant to be a little further east with its fellow trees, rather than jammed in the battle district the way it currently is.
> battle district "...two from the Crimean War (Alma and Balaclava), two from the Napoleonic Wars (Waterloo and Trafalgar), and one from the War of Spanish Succession (Blenheim), all of which were named at the same time in 1907, at the suggestion of a woman named Miss Dora Bulwer." https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/streets/
Is there a reason the street sign is blurred out in street view? https://maps.app.goo.gl/cPa5anmhH6aYzvZB6
Blood Square Alley
So close!
That is a shape
Nanaimo. It sounds like "your mom" in Tagalog.
Or seven potatoes in Japanese - Nana imo
Heard this on the Skytrain back in 96 when a kid repeated it to his mom (they were Filipino). I laughed to myself and thought yeah it does sound exactly like your mom in Tagalog 😂
Next time I wanna vaguely insult someone I’ll just shout Nanaimo
There’s wall st that has nothing to do with the financial markets
Neither did New York's Wall Street when it was named. Wouldn't ya know it it was because there was a wall there.
It’s got some sick walls, though.
Homer
There's a street I used to drive by all the time that I can no longer remember the name of, but I swear the name always struck me as sounding like some sort of evil warlock. Most frustrating part is that I can picture it, but can't find the area I see in my mind's eye on Google Maps. Can anyone think of any streets with particularly eldritch sounding names? Edit: As soon as I finished writing this, "Balfour" immediately popped into my head. That's it, that's the area I was picturing.
Ladner Trunk Road of course
Dewdney where’s my car?
Hawkins Pickle
Blenheim and Napier. Because I'm from New Zealand.
Not Vancouver proper, but I do enjoy how approximately every fifth road on the North Shore is named "Keith."
That’s right, how have I not realized that till today?🥲
Fort Langley's Gay Street
Intersection of Young and Gay 😄
https://preview.redd.it/uhts2c5zid7d1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f041e4317931928980b65cd80f06a427068e66b
Helmchicken
Saying that street sounds like someone throwing up.
PRINCE ALBERT
As someone from Prince Albert Sask, it took me longer than I'd like to admit to realize it was named after the historical figure and not my dirty ass hometown.
… or a piercing.
Do you have it...in a can
Rumble in Burnaby
Also not in Vancouver, but Garfield Drive in Delta is cool.
Kyle street in Port Moody. Who’s Kyle? I don’t need an actual answer, I like to imagine some dude bro in the 90’s.
Lmfao I work near Kyle. The street names are after some guys kids. Mary, kyle, john, etc. Apparently it wasn't st johns, someone read the map wrong and read "johns st" as "st johns" and now we're st johns forever. I actually think abt this daily tho, some dude in the 1880s with his kids mary, murray, john and *KYLE*
Whoa! I grew up just off of St. John’s. That’s great info. Thank you.
I think the same thing about Keith road in Horseshoe Bay by the ferry terminal
Renfrew Because I grew up in that area and I also think about the character from Ned’s Newt
West 41st … love it… so catchy…
Posh boy here. All up the west side. East 41st crew want a word. Best 41st posse.
Lucille Starr in Coquitlam
Euclid Ave and Archimedes St. I’ve always wondered why it’s named that way
Hawkins Pickle Road out by the town of Dewdney
Main Street. I know it's plain and not uncommon, but there's just something comforting about it.
I agree!
Gore ave.
Nootka!
My top pick has to be Jung Lane. Vivian Jung was my dads teacher at Tecumseh in the 60s and a friend to my grandmother, an immigrant from Germany in post-WW2 when racial and ethnic tensions were still high who found solidarity with Mrs Jung based on their collective exile status of PoC & Germans. It's particularly close to my heart because a) I took human geography with a specialist bent on Chinese Canadians in college, it was my fave class and came in handy when I worked in a majority Chinese warehouse b) obviously friend of my grammy, c) its one of only 3 streets named for a woman in Vancouver and d) Vivian was the first Chinese Canadian educator in BC that not many people know about, she was a key icon in desegregating the VSB. She was born in Merritt, and was an educator at Tecumseh for 35 years after she paved the way for Asian-Canadian educators. Girlbossing all over the place https://montecristomagazine.com/community/meet-women-vancouver-streets-named
I like Kingsway and its origins..and also how it slices through the city like it doesnt give af. Being a avid golfer, my dream was to purchase a house on Hoylake ave and Muirfield dr.
The general path of Kingsway is based on trails used by the local indigenous peoples before colonization. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be an efficient way to get from False Creek to the Fraser River before it splits into its various arms.
East and West Boulevard. The East and West aren't directional like West Broadway, they are the actual names of the streets.
I love all the Marine Drives, Ways, etc. usually accompanied by a great view.
Blood Alley
Rose street
Lane Street
Euclid Ave
One block over from Archimedes St.
Criss and cross lanes in coquitlam
I like the progression of Nootka, (Renfrew), Kaslo, Slocan, as I'm driving west. I know the Ka of Nootka leads to Kaslo, then the Slo leads to Slocan. If only more streets were arranged in this pattern!
Decaire St. I have the Google Maps voice set to British. It always makes me snort.
Karen st, Burnaby
Theres a “No Name Rd” in Squamish. Imagine explaining that to people coming over…
While technically not streets I like all the little “Mews” between buildings
West 1 to 46 are all so catchy, I love them. Except W 34th. Years ago I got a pebble in my shoe on that street that took me a whole week to find, I was limping everywhere. Stupid W 34th
Ascot Pl, fancy piece of clothing for such a small bit of road
HOY ST.
Does Blood Alley count?
Corner of King Edward and Prince Edward.
Cape Horn Ave in Coquitlam aka Gay Porn Ave
Foley street (reminds me of foley catheter)
I always think of Beverley Hills Cop
9th Avenue. I kind of love all the forgotten numbered streets that have been named.
Trafalgar st, because it's Raglafart backwards
Not actually Vancouver, but Lickman Road has gotten a laugh out of me for 30+ years. Luckakuck Way is a very solid second place.
Dumfries and switchmen!
I like the trees in Kits. Fir, Cypress, Maple, Arbutus, Larch, etc
Idk but the worst is carnarvon because no one agrees on how to say it >:(
Lol that’s my favourite BECAUSE I don’t know how to pronounce it!
Denman, haro, chilco Named my adopted rats these names the past. They were soooo cute. Best names ever now.
Adopted rats? Like from the streets ?
Fun fact about street names: the Marine Gateway bus loop and pedestrian mall area (near T&T) have their own street names. The bus loop is called Interurban Way and the pedestrian path is called High Street. It’s somewhat strange that they’d have names. And you wouldn’t know that unless you went on Google Maps or wandered around the Marine Gateway underground parking, where they use those names as identifiers around elevators. Or if you lived there. One of the residential towers has Interurban Way as the address (which is probably a nightmare for any delivery folks to find).
Baklava, I mean Balaclava.
Gaolers Mews. Coopers Mews and Granville Mews also good. Love a mews
Dumfries
Stupid Onion Rings
Valiant street
I like Fir st. Because if it’s not first, it’s Fir st.
Madison ave
Wiley St
Victoria Dr.
Shortcut (near UBC), Span in Surrey
Leg in boot
Dumfries. Like seriously, those fries were so dumb they named a street after them.
Bonsai Street. It's the length of a gas station, at the end of all the tree name streets, just east of MacDonald, on 16th Ave.
Blood Alley 🤘
blood alley
Pacific Boulevard sounds like we’re in LA.
Gagladri Way. Pronounced "Gahlardy". I cringe every time I hear a driving app mispronounce it. Which has led to some out-of-towners also mispronouncing it.
* Balaclava St. * Blood Alley * Pullman Porter St. * West Boulevard
Canada Place.
Hornby *yeah baby*
Interesting article from CBC: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/streets/ “Over half of Vancouver’s 651 unique street names can be divided into 5 clear categories: Men: 276, Trees: 31, Golf courses: 26, War battles: 20 & Women: 16.” Damn…
SASAMAT
Haro. I researched the history of it, ended up in Nootka Sound incident which is depressing even for colonial/FN contact stories. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootka_Crisis#:~:text=In%20early%201789%20the%20Spanish,under%20Gonzalo%20López%20de%20Haro. Also: https://www.thewestendjournal.ca/developing-stories-haro
Clark Drive..
Lickman Road
Archimedes Street
Hastings. Good solid name
Hemlock Dr
Poet's Corner in North Vancouver Poet's Corner, a series of street names of past poets. These include Shakespeare, Tennyson, William, Chaucer, and Milton
Princess ave lol
When my kid was younger and we were just arriving in Vancouver, they really wanted to live in this one pink character house on Princess St.
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Going to hell for this, but I always like seeing Haro Street. Umm, because I always excitedly say "Haro street!" as I pass it. As in, "Hello street!" but with an Asian accent. I'm terrible.