Street/Place Names

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Y

Yale Street
Origin unknown, possibly after James Murray Yale (a chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company and namesake of the town of Yale) who retired in Victoria in 1859
The Talk On The Street
. Click here to read the recollections of Erica Fowles
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York Place
Named after York, England
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