It seemed like any chance he could, Young would push for streets to be named after the books and characters created by 19th century Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott. It’s a tool with which planners, guided by Council, have used to support the development or enhancement of important public benefits – parks, community facilities, and public art to name a few. There are more streets in Vancouver named for golf courses (26) than there are for women (14) and people of colour (5) combined. An interactive map with every category can be found here, questions around representation on city-owned assets. We also have a few Vancouver people who did things like build ships or found museums, or the wife of a postmaster, and are hard to put in any one category. “We think it is a huge waste of trees and that green area. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Two that aren’t named for people, but are worth highlighting. From trees to provinces to politicians, the background of every unique street name in the City of Vancouver. The tupelo tree is native to the Eastern United States. Street where pretty much all the clubs are located in Downtown Vancouver; Robson Street. These are self-explanatory, and mostly along the same stretch of land between VGH and Mt. After writing down key descriptors for each street, we then separated them into categories, using the category we thought most applicable. Directors of the CPR who never visited the city. An effort to reverse that decision under Mayor Gregor Robertson’s council failed last fall. And that’s why the stretch of tree names in the centre of Vancouver seemingly has no order to it. Esther Short Park in the heart of the city, named after a redoubtable Vancouver pioneer, is the oldest public park in the Northwest. My family had recently moved to Vancouver from Port Hardy. Police decided to investigate this death in a very rigorous fashion: by hanging the leg and boot up at a station for two weeks, waiting for somebody to claim it. And then there's B.C. Speaking of Indigenous names, Vancouver has four streets for First Nations with territory far from here (including Mohawk Street), four streets for Indigenous people whose ancestral lands aren’t in Vancouver (including War of 1812 hero Tecumseh Avenue), and three streets with anglicized spellings of local Indigenous people or names. What makes this a Great Tree is the root system bulging from the earth, showing a long, tentacle-like grip on the soil. Samuel Greer owned land next to Kits Beach, but the government gave it to CP Rail as part of 6,000 acres bequeathed to them for building the railway terminus in Vancouver. Some of these streets honour the monarchy — including ones for Queen Victoria, the family name of Queen Victoria (Guelph Street), and the consort of Queen Victoria (Prince Albert) — while others are generic titles for the British royalty, including Duchess and Duke streets, and Kings and Queens avenues. Heritage preservation, as a type of public good, has also been factored into this process — and through this scheme various aspects of Vancouver’s material culture have been supported. The map shows three hotels-Sunnyside Hotel, Granville Hotel, and “Gassy Jack’s” Deighton Hotel-as well as a dozen smaller buildings including shops, a meat packing plant, boarding houses, cow barn, real estate office and Chinese wash house. Art Gallery in the centre of the city. Not Bucketwheel Street, not Bucketwheel Avenue. Snap! We also have a lot of things, particularly in False Creek, named in honour of industrial activities we used to do, from Industrial Avenue to Bucketwheel. Here’s a fun list of some streets surrounding the Port of Vancouver and what they’re named after! For info on Victoria's flowering street trees, see the archived post here. Golf courses in Scotland (Muirfield Drive), and England (Hoylake Avenue) and several places, including three in the Toronto area, are honoured with street names in Vancouver, mostly around Fraserview Golf Course. Check. The particular segment is adjacent to a brief jog and split in MacDonald that has created some confusion over the years (both the jog and this one block split are both called “MacDonald” even though they run parallel). Esther Short Park in the heart of the city, named after a redoubtable Vancouver pioneer, is the oldest public park in the Northwest. and there's also another neighborhood where allthe streets have names in spanish. Daniels Street: Named for Horace Daniels, a prominent early citizen of Vancouver. But when it comes to our natural heritage — that great commonwealth of green and blue that one sees on all the postcards — the ability to use the density bonusing as a preservation tool begins to run into difficulty. Vancouver also has 24 more streets named for people from the United Kingdom (including six early Governor-Generals of Canada, Prime Ministers like Gladstone, and poets like Coleridge), two European statesmen (José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca, and Prince Rupert of the Rhine), and two Greek mathematicians (Euclid and Archimedes). Mme Nature did all the design work. On Wednesday crews chopped up tree stumps at the now barren site by Granville Street and McRae Avenue. And a lot of them ended up being named for employees, or CP Rail directors, or in one case (Marguerite Street) the daughter of the CP chairman. Work to remove dozens of trees started last week. ©2019 CBC/Radio-Canada. Urban Forest News – West End Tulip, Shaughnessy Tree Loss, Ground support: a tentacle-like grip on the soil, Kits Beach: Weeping willows, sweeping majesty, Metro: Vancouver losing its tree canopies: Group, Camera? It is felt that Bonsai is a fitting name for such a short street. In 1887, a leg and attached boot washed onto False Creek. These streets, mostly located on the east side of the city, are also fairly self-explanatory. Vancouver loves naming streets for golf courses — especially if those courses aren't in Vancouver. He lost his land, but lived for another 35 years. A couple of items from this Thursday’s Vancouver Courier that will be of interest. pioneers that had little to do with Vancouver. We certainly still regret the fact these trees were sacrificed for an unwelcome townhouse development that alters the whole character of the neighbourhood…”, Stop the presses–council errs on side of caution An article in today’s Metro about the loss of mature street trees in the city. The mapmakers gave these streets arbitrary names: Front (now Water Street), Willow (now Cordova Street), Water (now Carrall Street), Wood (now Abbott Street). I chose this tree  – an Ash – among a few others because it is so perfectly formed–without any help from us. She stands there launching at the buildings around her. She also co-founded St. Luke's, one of Vancouver's first hospitals, and according to The History of Metropolitan Vancouver, was called the "Florence Nightingale of the City" for her work during the smallpox epidemic of the 1890s. Beech. In 1867, four years before British Columbia joined the Confederation, it was referred to as a small neighbourhood called Gastown, named after John “Gassy Jack” Deighton, the first settler of the region, who opened a bar near the Burrard Inlet and got really popular for it. It is part of an impressive line of trees shielding the Chestnut Street, triple-winged apartment building from the busy street. He pointed out many of Vancouver’s streets are not named after people, but are instead numbered avenues or named after trees. Nobody did, but 90 years later, we thought that would make a good story for a street name. Trees are my most favourite Beings on the planet next to whales and dolphins. But Greer refused to leave the land, so the government sent a sheriff to arrest him. Located near Mitchell Island, Vancouver council created Jack Uppal Street in 2016 — the first street in Vancouver directly named for a South Asian person. And for CPR to make money off that land, it needed to be cleared, surveyed, and filled with streets. In fact, when you add it all up, over 10 per cent of Vancouver streets are named for British people, places, or royals. Streets. John died on August 18, likely during the Battle of the Falaise Pocket. Finally, there were a few streets that weren’t named after people that frankly were hard to put in any category. Everyday when I left the house I would pluck a few plums and have a delicious snack for the day. According to city planner Brent Toderian, that would be roughly equivalent to the additional cost the developer would incur to develop underground parking without taking out the tree…. Never has a tree been decorated and seen so much as the Giant. The developer wanted to access the bonus in exchange for working around the largest known specimen of tulip tree in the city…. The 100 Best Songs Of 2020 (Nos. The suburb next door is Gordon. It may not be the best explanation. Just Bucketwheel. They are what bind a city together — and the names they are given often make little sense a century later. Tomorrow, this grove of tree streets may just find themselves joined by a brand-new arboreal colleague. The curving streets of First Shaughnessy were laid out to follow the natural slope of the land, giving lots ideal views, in contrast to most of Vancouver’s simple grid plan. 's original training school for nurses. (Each section will be labelled by its street category, followed by a number indicating how many streets in Vancouver fall under that category). Two decisions at city council’s last planning and environment committee meeting are worth noting. The street tree dataset includes a listing of public trees on boulevards in the City of Vancouver and provides data on tree coordinates, species and other related characteristics. For the first time, the city’s historic street trees have been included in Heritage Vancouver’s annual list of endangered heritage sites. Vancouver Courier; June 18, 2010; Naoibh O’Connor. Park trees and private trees are not included in the inventory.Tree records that do not have coordinates data will not show up in the map view; consult the table view for full listing. The solution: a new name for this tiny branch of a road… and a nice nod to the Japanese art of ornamental dwarf trees. There are a bunch of streets in Vancouver named after trees. Metro: Vancouver losing its tree canopies: Group. The property was rezoned under former mayor Sam Sullivan’s council. Residents fought the development project for years. The majestic tree canopies that shade Vancouver’s streets are being frittered away, warns a local heritage group. It is my favourite tree in Van. Vancouver’s history is embedded into our streets. Why? And of the six streets in the far northeast of the city named for universities, four are also in England (Yale and McGill streets being the two outliers). They were intended to be, but the draftsman who drew up the original street map neglected to alphabetize the list he was given. From wealthy landowners to prominent politicians, the figures behind our street names tell this city’s story from the days prior to the confederation. Council was asked to consider allowing a developer–represented by Bing Thom’s firm of architects–an additional six storeys on a 12-storey building in exchange for not axing the tree. Round the corner are Khartoum Rd, Talavera Rd, Nelson Rd, and many others. Tomorrow, this grove of tree streets may just find themselves joined by a brand-new arboreal colleague. The street is in the heart of Coal Harbour and is currentely one of the most high-end streets in Vancouver. Their lives and professional backgrounds were varied: from Frank Price, a janitor at a local school, to F.M. Request tree pruning, planting, removal, and pest control. Maple, Larch, Ash, Arbutus and others cross a number of neighbourhoods in their north-south journey across the city. And partly because it seemed like a fun project to embark on, and an interesting service to provide to the public. >. A push to have a street named after Ryan Reynolds in his hometown of Vancouver, Canada has hit a bump in the road. The Park Board, he said, needs a one-to-one replacement strategy so that when trees are taken down they are replaced by one of the same species. After a few weeks I was happy to find out there was a plum tree right outside my window. Near the park is the state's first Roman Catholic cathedral, which held the title of St. James Cathedral until 1907 when the See and the bishop were transferred to Seattle. The Garry Oak is a medium sized tree with thick dark grey bark and a round canopy. You can find the main post here. The Garry Oak is a native tree of British Columbia. I’m sure you’ve seen her. The amount of leaves this tree drops come autumn also makes it a contender as a Great Tree. If you are looking for information about the Town of Qualicum Beach, you have come to the right place. I live in Waterloo Rd. Greer shot the sheriff (who survived) before eventually being arrested. A quick history lesson: when Canadian Pacific Railway agreed to end their country-crossing railroad in Vancouver instead of Port Moody, the province gave them 6,000 acres of land. In Vancouver, where you can find a tree hugger behind every bush, Liriodendron tulipifera is a rare and cherished species, or so we have been led to believe. Perhaps all records, like trees, eventually fall – making it all the more important for us to appreciate them while they still stand. Under the process, extra allowable height (“density”) is permitted on a given project, and in exchange for this, developers provide a public good. Because that’s a thing you can do when you own a fifth of a city. Along with the longest-serving owner (Frank Griffiths) and general manager (Pat Quinn) of the Vancouver Canucks, whose names surround Rogers Arena. Branches swept the ground and tickled my skin as I played with them. They are native to British Columbia. Including a few B.C. They are mostly trees types. This app tells you the name of every tree planted on Vancouver, BC's city streets Perhaps all records, like trees, eventually fall – making it all the more important for us to appreciate them while they still stand. With that out of the way, here are the origins all 651 streets in Vancouver. From Wikipedia: "Groups of streets in one area are sometimes named using a particular theme.A well-known example is in Philadelphia, where the major east-west streets in William Penn's original plan for the city carry the names of trees: from north to south, these were Vine, Sassafras, Mulberry, Market (not a tree), Chestnut, Walnut, Locust, Spruce, Pine. I find their names about as interesting as the “Mapleview” or “Applewood” names that would come in the Modern suburban era, where the trees have been cleared and the streets named after them. At the whim of the local government or property developer. Douglas died on August 9, likely during Operation Totalize. Check. The downtown, the trials and triumphs… she has seen them. This route goes from South to North. The City’s Street Name Committee will be presenting a report to City Council that would see a one-block component of MacDonald between West 16th and 17th renamed Bonsai Street. LOL you should see the names of the streets here they are named after spices, and in another neighborhood they all are named after something to do with car racing there's this street calle Grand Prix wy. The Pigeon Park Giant. Running along the west side of the Willamette River, Linnton was incorporated as its own town in 1910, then merged with Portland in 1915. Elizabeth Walker, in her book Street Names of Vancouver (1999), writes (excerpted): “Lauchlin Hamilton, the CPR’s surveyor and, later, a land commissioner, is considered the ‘father’ of Vancouver.... he named the streets from Heather to Vine... in his 1887 survey.” Larch, Balsam and Vine Streets, which were named after the … The City of Vancouver has a long tradition of naming streets after trees and plants. Those were eventually named for local Indigenous terms, along with three other streets in the subdivision, an area leased to the City of Vancouver and subject to multiple jurisdictional lawsuits over the years. ... Fruit Valley Road–Because of the large number of orchard trees planted in this neighborhood in the late 1800s, residents named the area Fruit Valley. The value of the bonus was estimated at about $4 million. Which leaves us with exactly 200 streets named for people who lived in British Columbia. Their regiment took part in a series of battles after D-Day to fortify Allied positions in France. But a systematic look at the names of Vancouver's streets has never happened, because nobody in their right mind would try and analyze every single street in this city...until now. I’m pretty sure I have a tree gene so I’d marry one if the law allowed. UPDATE (February 28, 2010): The Finnerty apple tree at UVic is gone. Birch trees It has huge flowers on it. “The appearance of the site is worse than we thought it would be–worse than we imagined,” she said Wednesday. Beach Avenue is named such because it’s next to the Beach, Boundary Road because it’s the boundary between Vancouver and Burnaby, Main Street because … you get the picture. It’s a common enough species in Eastern deciduous forests of North America. 2304 W 8th Ave., Vancouver, BC. The first time I became aware I was in love with a tree I was seven years old. In the past two years, the city planted 16,000 trees on the streets and through residential areas. Young, apparently had a lot of sway. These streets of tree names tell us the cultivation of trees in Vancouver. Linden Tree Place is a 4-storey residence for people with disabilities and seniors in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood. Alberni street was named after the spanish explorer: Colonel Pedro de Alberni. The name changed from Strawberry Knoll in 1883 when M.A. The origins of all 651 street names in Vancouver | CBC News There are so many wonderful trees in Vancouver, all of which I’d like to adopt… Personally? People take some getting used to. She stands so tall, and so stands so long. Recognizing the numerous benefits trees provide, the City is making an investment in the future by caring for the trees we have and planting many more trees throughout the city. Among them are two separate streets (Cecil street and Rhodes street) named for a British colonialist, Cecil Rhodes, whose name was recently removed from a local school. 20-1) Where we all give up, she cries a little and grows some more. She’s impossible not to notice. and there's also another neighborhood where allthe streets have names in spanish. pioneers outside of Vancouver, a few people whose biggest claim to fame was chopping down trees for houses and roads, and on the topic of chopping down trees, five streets named after owners and operators of the Hastings Sawmill, the first major industry in Vancouver. Virtually the entire city of Vancouver is named in a haphazard way, with city councils (and in Vancouver's very early days, a rail company) approving new names with no formal process. Now getting to people a little bit closer to home, occasionally the city named a street after someone associated primarily with Canada, but not necessarily B.C., like Prime Ministers John A. Macdonald, Alexander Mackenzie, and Wilfrid Laurier. And finally, there is Worthington Drive and Worthington Place — one of the few places in Vancouver where a seemingly duplicate name is for two separate people. He has been credited with uniting his community and fighting discrimination. … Vancouver honoured a few places on this continent as well, including Broadway, named in the hopes it would become the equivalent of the one in New York City. Elm, Birch, Cypress don't always progress in alphabetic order? Vancouver has a lovely tradition of streets named after trees. Lots of streets named after trees; Granville Street. The second is a piece by Allan Garr on the West End tulip tree that was referenced on this blog last week. I was used to being surrounded by old evergreen forests and large cedars that creaked when the breeze blew through their tops. On Monday (Dec. 7), six activists stood their ground along Bugaboo Creek to stop Surrey-based logging company Teal Jones Group from clear-cut logging in the area. But many of them are mostly known, a century later, because they owned land when Vancouver was being founded. Vancouver Courier; June 18, 2010; Allen Garr. An interactive map with every category can be found here. This Great Tree is on the west of Fir on the North side of West 12th. While nearly 90 per cent of Vancouver's named streets have some sort of backstory written down, linked to a specific person, thing or event, there are 62 streets with no clear link to anything, from Adanac (literally just “Canada” spelled backwards) to Wehnonah. Ever notice that the streets named after trees - i.e. Yan says dialogue about renaming streets is long overdue. Maple, Larch, Ash, Arbutus and others cross a number of neighbourhoods in their north-south journey across the city. Formerly the Worm Wood Forest, refers to the trees growing in the 10 km 2 surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and is one of several of the Chernobyl disaster effects on April 26, 1986. agreed to put forward the name “Bonsai Street” for Council approval. This official site has been established by the Town of Qualicum Beach to provide its residents and visitors from around the world with easy access to Town information and services. But it certainly is the most unique. The issue, Luxton said, is that when trees get old and need to be replaced, they’re cut down and replaced with smaller, ornamental trees — “stunted dwarfs” that lack the size and character of the original. First draw in the Great Trees contest takes place Monday. It was a perfect way to welcome me to Vancouver and added some sweet-tartness to my first months in the city. And also six people whose biggest claim to fame was chopping down trees for houses and roads, along with five streets named after owners and operators of the Hastings Sawmill. Leaves with fall colour. The City maintains trees that line Vancouver’s streets and trees in parks. In 1967, Valiant was shot by a murderer who was on the run after escaping prison, becoming the first police dog to be killed in the line of duty in Vancouver. Young tupelo in parking lot. Jack Uppal was a philanthropist and business leader who came to B.C. Ryan Reynolds really doesn't want a street in Vancouver named after him. Warner Bros. has issued a statement after being slammed by members of the disability community over the depiction of Anne Hathaway’s character in … It concerns a spectacular specimen of tulip tree found in the West End – one which is currently threatened by development pressures. While most geography-based streets are fairly reductive, there is one called Little Street that is one block long. Some of them have a direct connection to Canada (Dieppe Place, Normandy Drive, Vimy Crescent), but there are also two from the Crimean War (Alma and Balaclava), two from the Napoleonic Wars (Waterloo and Trafalgar), and one from the War of Spanish Succession (Blenheim), all of which were named at the same time in 1907, at the suggestion of a woman named Miss Dora Bulwer. His nickname was Gritty, over 100 years before that was cool, and a one-block street in the area where he once owned land was named in his honour four years after his death. But wait, we’re not close to being done with names from a different continent. We’re covered over 45 per cent of Vancouver’s unique names now, by the way. Maple, Larch, Ash, Arbutus and others cross a number of neighbourhoods in their north-south journey across the city. 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