Street/Place Names

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of old fairground being subdivided (376 K)

ALLENBY STREET — 1954
Looking east at Allenby Street pushing through the fairgrounds
Photo courtesy Gary Wilcox

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Alexander Avenue
Origin unknown.
Former name of Dewdney Avenue, renamed in 1921
Information welcomed

Allenby Street
Originally called Robert Street but renamed in 1928 after Field Marshall Viscount Allenby.
Until the mid 1950s Allenby Street, in Oak Bay, was just a one-block street between Foul Bay Road and Henderson Road. When the fairgrounds were subdivided in 1954, Allenby Street was pushed through the fairgrounds to connect with and incorporate Wakefield Road, on the east side.
The Talk On The Street
. Click here to read the recollections of Gary Wilcox
— early 1950s —
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in the early years.
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Anscomb Place
Named after Herbert Anscomb, a former reeve of Oak Bay, mayor of Victoria, and cabinet minister in the provincial government. see Herbert Anscomb
Originally called Dundas Avenue until c1928

Arden Road
Origin unknown.
Information welcomed

Armstrong Avenue
Origin unknown.
Information welcomed

Ashdowne Road
Origin unknown.
Named by the Hudson's Bay Company

Avondale Road
Origin unknown.
Named by the Hudson's Bay Company


PLACE NAMES

 Anderson Hill (Blueberry Hill)
Named circa 1870 after Alexander Caulfield Anderson, chief trader of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Anderson retired from the Company in 1854 and settled in Saanich. He subsequently became the first collector of customs of British Columbia, and postmaster of Victoria. He was later appointed a commissioner for the settlement of the Indian land question and, at the time of his death in 1884, was Fisheries Commissioner for the province
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