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NEWPORT AVENUE — c 1910?
Note the tall wood fence around Oak Bay Park (Windsor Park)
Photo courtesy RBCM (F-07457)

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Neil Street
Origin unknown.
Originally there were two sections separated by the Willows fairgrounds. The west section was a continuation of Neil Street in Saanich. The east section was an extension of Thompson Avenue west of Cadboro Bay Road. This one-block extension was renamed West Thompson Avenue in 1939. With the subdivision of the fairgrounds in 1953, Neil Street was pushed through and incorporated West Thompson Avenue
Information welcomed

Newport Avenue
Origin unknown, possibly after Newport, England.
In 1891 the Oak Bay Land and Improvement Co. Ltd. proposed a grandiose scheme that included a grand hotel and a seaport at Oak Bay Beach to reduce travel time to Vancouver. The seaport never materialized, but Mt. Baker hotel was built. Perhaps Newport Avenue, built to service this new development, was optimistically named after this unrealized seaport

Newton Street
Origin unknown.
Originally called Charlton Street but renamed in 1928 in deference to Newton Street in Saanich. With the subdivision of the Willows fairgrounds in 1953 this street was extended east to Eastdowne Road
Information welcomed

Norfolk Road
Named after Norfolk, England.
The Norfolk Road streetname is unique in Oak Bay on two counts. First, it is the only streetname to be assigned to two different Oak Bay streets concurrently and, second, it is the only streetname to be re-assigned to a new Oak Bay location
see two following entries
In Oak Bay's early years there were duplicate sets of numbered streets, like Third Street, but for the sake of discussion let's call these street numbers, not street names. Also, there once were two concurrent Deals, but one was Deal Street (south Oak Bay) and the other was Deal Road (the Uplands).

Norfolk Road (the Uplands)
Norfolk Road was originally a short street that radiated off Midland Circle to connect with Lincoln Road. When large, unsold lots were subdivided in the 1930s to create more marketable medium-size lots, Lincoln Road disappeared and two new streets were built to service these new lots: Exeter Road and an entirely new Norfolk Road. The original Norfolk Road became the southern section of Ripon Road

Norfolk Road (Willows)
Norfolk Road was a short access road off Cadboro Bay Road that led into the Willows fairgrounds in the 1920s. It was renamed Norwich Road in the 1930s and ultimately disappeared in the early 1950s with the creation of Woodhouse Road when the fairgrounds were subdivided

Nottingham Road
Named after Nottingham, England.
Originally called Somerset Road


PLACE NAMES

Naze, The
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