Street/Place Names

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courtesy Royal BC Museum and Archives | B-07482 . . .

A rudimentary FLORENCE STREET (1912)
Our Lady of Lourdes Church is being constructed on Third Street (Haultain)

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	Fair Street
	Named after the annual fair once held on the Willows Fairgrounds (the Carnarvon Park area).
	Falkland Road
	Named to commemorate the battle of the Falkland Islands during World War I.
	Originally called Boundary Road (it marked a boundary between the original Pemberton and McNeill properties) but renamed in 1921
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	First Street
	Origin descriptive, closest street to the waterfront (Willows Beach).
	Original name, until 1921, of the section of Beach Drive between Bowker Creek and Camas Lane
	Florence Street
	Origin Unknown.
	Information welcomed
	Fourth Street
	Origin descriptive, fourth street from the waterfront (Willows Beach).
	Original name of Dunlevy Street, renamed in 1921
	Foul Bay Road
	Named after the bay at its southern extremity
	Over the years the City of Victoria has made several appeals to the municipality of Oak Bay to change "Foul Bay Road" to "Fowl Bay Road," but to no avail
	Frederick Norris Road
	Named after F.E. Norris, former reeve of Oak Bay.
	Frederick Norris Place
	Named after F.E. Norris, former reeve of Oak Bay.
	Front Street
	Name descriptive, as it was the first street from the water on the west side of Foul Point (Harling Point).
	Former name of Penzance Road until 1921

PLACE NAMES

	Flamborough Head
	Headland in The Uplands. Named after spectacular headland on the Yorkshire coast of England — one of the country's most remarkable areas of chalk cliffs.
	This Oak Bay headland, immediately south of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, features a multimillion-dollar private residence.
	Flotsam Cove
	Small cove in The Uplands. Origin uncertain, possibly descriptive or possibly after namesake in Scotland.
	Foul Bay (Gonzales Bay)
	Descriptive, making reference to its navigation hazards.
	Originally called Foul Bay on an official survey done about 1847. Confusingly called Fowl Bay from the late 1800s because of Isabella Ross' adjoining Fowl Bay Farm. Renamed Gonzales Bay in 1924 after decades-old campaign by area residents claiming the name Foul Bay negatively affected real estate values.
	Foul Point (Harling Point)
	Descriptive, making reference to its navigation hazards.
Original name of Harling Point. Sometimes referred to as Chinese Point after the Chinese cemetery that was built at this location in 1903.
	Fowl Bay (Foul Bay / Gonzales Bay)
	Descriptive, making reference to the abundance of water fowl
	Early name given to Foul Bay by Isabella Ross who owned property — Fowl Bay Farm — along the waterfront from 1853. Officially called Gonzales Bay from 1924.
	Funnel Cove
	Small cove in The Uplands. Origin uncertain, possibly descriptive.

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