Street/Place Names

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	Katherine Street
	Origin unknown.
	Original name of Guernsey Street until 1921
	Information welcomed
	Kelsey Place
	Origin uncertain, probably after Henry Kelsey, explorer, mariner and overseas governor of the HBC.
	Named by the Hudson's Bay Company
	Kendal Avenue
	Origin unknown.
	Named by the Hudson's Bay Company
	King George Terrace
	Named after King George V.
	Oak Bay Archives | 1994-001-024 Excavation of King George Terrace circa 1911 Click on image to view enlargement
	Click on NAMESAKE to learn namesake of KING GEORGE
	Kings Road
	Origin unknown – continuation of a very old Victoria road of the same name.
	With its rocky outcroppings, Kings Road was a source of gravel for streetwork during Oak Bay's early years as a municipality.1
1 A rock crusher was the first purchase, in 1908, of Oak Bay's public works department.
	Kinross Avenue
	Origin unknown, possibly after the Scottish town, Kinross, near Loch Leven Castle, where Mary Queen of Scots was famously held prisoner in 1567
	Oak Bay Archives | 1994-050-004 Kinross Avenue at Woodhouse Road circa 1955 Click on image to view enlargement
	Kinross Avenue was a short access road off Cadboro Bay Road that led into the Willows Fairgrounds in the 1920s. In the early 1950s, when the old fairgrounds was subdivided, Kinross was extended and curved to connect with newly-created Woodhouse Road and then curved again to connect with Eastdowne Road.
Kinross Avenue was created in the 1920s, so it's unlikely it was named after a local pioneer. And since it was created about the same time as nearby Norfolk Road, its name is likely of UK origin. It's unusual, though, that such a short, dead-end street was originally designated an "Avenue."
	Information welcomed

PLACE NAMES

	Kitty's Islet
	Origin unknown.
	Kitty's Islet is located on the east side of McNeill Bay
	Information welcomed

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