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Babbacombe |
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Origin unknown. |
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This short cul-de-sac once existed immediately north of the Victoria Golf Links east of Beach Drive |
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Named after Captain Charles William Barkley, an early explorer in local waters (c. 1787). |
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Originally called Patricia Avenue, then Barkley Street |
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Bartlett Avenue
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Named after Alfred T. Bartlett, a pioneer resident of Oak Bay. |
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Beach Avenue |
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Origin descriptive. |
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Former name of Broom Road, renamed in 1921 to avoid confusion with Beach Drive |
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Beach Drive |
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Origin descriptive. |
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So named after consolidating Dallas Road (from city boundary to Victoria Golf Course), Mt Baker Avenue (from golf course to Bowker Creek) and First Street (from Bowker Creek to Camas Lane) in 1921 and Shore Road (through the Uplands subdivision) in 1928 |
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Beachway Avenue |
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Origin descriptive. |
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Former name of Cavendish Avenue, renamed in 1921 |
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Beaver Street |
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Origin uncertain, possibly descriptive, or after HBC's Reverend Herbert Beaver, or after HBC's pioneering steamship SS Beaver |
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Former name of Beaverbrooke Street |
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Beaverbrooke Street |
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Origin uncertain, possibly after British press baron, Lord Beaverbrook — who in real life was Canadian, William Maxwell Aitken, who was granted a peerage in 1917. Beaverbrook was chosen after the name of a small community near his boyhood home in Ontario. |
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Originally called Beaver Street but changed at request of Victoria Postmaster |
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Bee Street |
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Origin unknown. |
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Bellevue Avenue |
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Origin probably descriptive, "beautiful view." |
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Former name of Beresford Place prior to 1921 |
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Bell's Road |
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Origin descriptive, probably after early settler. |
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Original name of one-block section of Hampshire Road between Bowker and Cavendish Avenues prior to 1928 |
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Beresford Place
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Named after Admiral, Lord Charles Beresford, one-time First Lord of the Admiralty in Britain. |
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Originally called Bellevue Street, renamed in 1921 |
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Bowker Avenue
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Named after John Sylvester Bowker, an early Oak Bay pioneer and son-in-law of John Tod. |
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Called Oak Bay Road on a 1890 map, as it led to Bowker's "Oak Bay Farm" |
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Bowker Place
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Named after John Sylvester Bowker, an early Oak Bay pioneer and son-in-law of John Tod. |
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Street on which John Sylvester Bowker built his home. |
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Brighton Avenue |
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Origin uncertain, probably after Brighton, England. |
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So named after consolidating Cowan Avenue (in 1921) and Brighton Place (in 1939) |
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Broom Road |
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Origin unknown, probably descriptive. |
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Originally called Beach Avenue, renamed in 1921 to avoid confusion with Beach Drive |
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Burdick Avenue |
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Named after N.T. Burdick, an Oak Bay councillor and reeve for a short term in 1918. Burdick was a partner in Green & Burdick Bros. Real Estate |
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A municipal gravel pit once existed on Burdick Avenue. (c 1922) |
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Burns Street |
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Named after Scottish poet Robert Burns. |
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Former name of Elgin Road, renamed in 1921 |
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Byng Street |
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Named after Lord Byng of Vimy (WWI). |
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Originally called Oakland Road, renamed in 1921 |
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Byron Street |
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Named after Lord George Gordon Byron, English poet. |
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Byron Street is one of many streets in the area named after English poets including Goldsmith, Milton and Chaucer |
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Nearby Elgin Road was originally called Burns Street, after Scottish poet Robert Burns |
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