Street/Place Names

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Robert Loewing photo courtesy John Bromley | Gary Wilcox Collection
. Cadboro Bay Road (September 14, 1946) .
Uplands streetcar travelling west approaching Epworth Street
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Cadboro Bay Road
The Cadboro
Named after the bay, which was named after the first European ship to anchor in the bay, the Cadboro.
This was originally a wagon trail that connected Fort Victoria to the HBC's Cadboro Bay Farm in the uplands overlooking Cadboro Bay
Click on THE TALK ON THE STREET to enjoy the 1930s recollections of Phil Ballam

Calvert Crescent
Origin unknown.
Information welcomed

Camas Lane
Origin descriptive, after the wild plant that thrived in local meadows.
This was the boundary between John Tod's property and the Hudson's Bay Company's fur trade reserve (which became known as Uplands Farm)

Cardiff Place
Named after Cardiff, Wales.

Cardigan Road
Named after Cardigan, Wales.

Carnarvon Street
Named after Caernarfon, Wales.
Originally called Gordon Street, renamed in 1921
Carnarvon is an anglicized form of Caernarfon, in North Wales. There have been many Earls of Carnarvon in British aristocracy, with their ancestral home, for three centuries, being Highclere Castle, the film location of the popular television series, Downton Abbey.

Carrick Street
Origin Unknown.
Originally called Fourth Street, renamed in 1928 in deference to Carrick Street in Saanich to which it is contiguous
Information welcomed

Casey's Corner
Casey's Corner
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Named after local pioneer shopkeepers Eric and Pearl Casey.
Casey's Corner is the local name give to the intersection of St Patrick Street and Central Avenue, where pioneer shopkeepers, Eric and Pearl Casey, ran a confectionery on the north-east corner since at least the early 1940s
see Eric Casey, Pearl Casey

Cavendish Avenue
Origin uncertain, possibly after William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, England.
Originally called Beachway Avenue, renamed in 1921

Cedar Hill Cross Road
Named after Cedar Hill (Mt Douglas).
Originally an Indian trail between Cedar Hill and Cadboro Bay. It was called Bay Road by early settlers

Central Avenue
Origin descriptive. Central Avenue runs through the middle of the original McNeill property
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Charlton Street
Origin unknown.
Former name of Newton Street, renamed in 1928 in deference to Newton Street in Saanich to which it is contiguous
Information welcomed

Chaucer Street
Chaucer
Named after Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet.
Chaucer Street is one of many streets in the area named after English poets including Goldsmith, Milton and Byron
Nearby Elgin Road was originally called Burns Street, after Scottish poet Robert Burns

Chiltern Place
Origin uncertain, possibly after Chiltern Hills, England.
This is one of several cul-de-sacs created in the Uplands during the early 1930s when many large-size lots were subdivided into medium-size lots to encourage sales during the early years of the Depression
Other cul-de-sacs created in the Uplands at this time were Torrence Place, Valdez Place, Tarn Place and Thorpe Place. An extension of Weald Road was also created north of Cotswold Road to service new medium-size lots.
Also at this time Lincoln Road (north of Lansdowne Road) disappeared to be replaced by Exeter Road and realigned Norfolk Road built to sevice newly-created medium-size lots in the eastern portion of the Uplands.

Christie Way
Named after Mrs. M. Christie, a Victoria alderman.
Mrs. Christie was responsible for the subdivision of city-owned property related to the Old Men's Home (Mountain View)

Clive Drive
Clive Drive
Named after Sir Clive Phillipps-Wolley, who built a large home — Woodhall — at the upper end of the street in 1891.
Originally the access road to Phillipps-Wolley's home
Click on THE TALK ON THE STREET to enjoy the 1930s recollections of Patricia Johnston

Connaught Avenue
Origin unconfirmed, but probably after Duke of Connaught, who visited Oak Bay in September, 1912, to bolster Commonwealth solidarity on the eve of World War I.
Former name of Estevan Avenue between 1913 and 1921. Before 1913 it was named Olympia Avenue
Henderson Road appears on one pre-incorporation (1906) map as Connaught Avenue

Cookman Street
Origin uncertain, possibly after an early settler.
Information welcomed

Cotswold Road
Origin uncertain, probably after the Cotswold Hills, England.
Click on NAMESAKE to learn namesake of COTSWOLD

Cranleigh Place
Named after Cranleigh House, a private school established in 1923 by Charles V. Milton in the former Willows Hotel building.
The school was converted to a four-plex before being demolished in 1968 to make way for the Cranleigh Apartments at 2189 Cadboro Bay Road

Cranmore Road
Named in 1908 after two pioneer residents, Ross Crane and Albert Henry Blakemore.
Fomerly called Todd Road from 1902 until 1908. Originally called Tod's Road on subdivision map.

Crescent Road
Origin descriptive.

Crestview Road
Origin descriptive.

Cubbon Drive
Named after Harold Cubbon, one of the subdividers of the former MacDonald property.
Cubbon Drive is a short road that serves the subdivision

Currie Road
Named after Lieutenant General, Sir Arthur Currie, C.B., K.C.M.G., commander of the Canadian forces in World War I.
Originally called Longbranch Avenue, renamed in 1923


PLACE NAMES

Cadboro Bay
Named after the Hudson's Bay Company brigantine, Cadboro, built in 1824 at Rye, England, and named after the nearby village, Cadborough. The Cadboro was the first ship to anchor in Cadboro Bay.
There's much confusion in the literature as to the spelling of "Cadboro," as the spelling "Cadborough" often appears for the ship, the bay and the road. Possibly adding to the confusion is the fact that the Hudson's Bay Company had a brigantine called "Cadboro" and a schooner called "Cadborough." The brig was used in local waters.
SONGHEES NAME
Sungayka ("snowpatches")
The site of the present day Royal Victoria Yacht Club is a former village site. The small headland next to it was an aboriginal fort

Cattle Point
Descriptive. Between 1860 and 1910, Victoria-bound cattle from the mainland were pushed overboard from paddle steamers to swim ashore to this beachhead on Uplands Farm.
In 1890 the Hudson's Bay Company leased this portion of their farm to the B.C. Cattle Company who established a wharf and slaughter house in the vicinity of the present-day yacht club.
Cattle Point was originally called North Foreland on early maps

Causton Green
Named after former Oak Bay Mayor Christopher Causton, Causton Green is located behind the library, on Hampshire Road.

Chatham Island
Named by Captain George Vancouver in 1792 after HMS Chatham, the small consort of HMS Discovery that charted local waters under the command of Lieutenant Commander Broughton, R.N.
HMS Chatham was undoubtedly named after the Earl of Chatham who was at that time the First Lord of the Admiralty.
SONGHEES NAME
Stsnaang or Tichless ("island")
This island was home to the Skingeenis People. They returned here to escape the smallpox epidemic in 1862

Chinese Point (see Harling Point)
Descriptive. Temporary name given to Foul Point after Chinese cemetery was built at this location in 1903.
Subsequently renamed Harling Point

Cochrane Common
Named after former Oak Bay Chief Administrative Officer, Bill Cochrane, Cochrane Common is located behind the municipal hall.

Corbett's Corner
Corbett's Corner, located at the junction of Newport and Oak Bay Avenues, was created with legacy funds from Mrs. Corbett who once lived in the condos near this corner. She and her husband had a garden they maintained on the right-of-way (alley) behind their condo.
"This Corbett's Corner information is from a friend.
My friend recalls that Dr. Corbett was a dentist who was retired (possibly from another town or province) and he and his wife settled in Oak Bay. When he died, his widow asked the municipality for a garden to be put in the area defining where Oak Bay Avenue ended and Newport Avenue began. She paid to have this area set up and maintained in Dr. Corbett's memory."
— Dianne Kersey Zanichelli, OBHS class of 1961
Information welcomed

Costain Green
Named after Ernie Costain, Costain Green is located at the junction of Beach Drive and Midland Road.
Information welcomed about the dedication of this green space. When? Why? Sponsor?






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