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Originally Posted by CanSpice
Kingsway runs through Vancouver and Burnaby, and it doesn't have a street type -- it's not Kingsway Street or Kingsway Avenue, it's just Kingsway. Are there any other roads in Canada that are like this?
As far as I can find it didn't start out as Kings Way either. It used be called Westminster Road and Vancouver Road until it was officially opened in 1913 as Kingsway.
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Thunder Bay's Kingsway is just Kingsway. It was originally part of Highway 61, a beautiful tree-lined street that headed south toward the US. Now the trees are gone, the hotels are dumpy, and it's not very busy. We used to have a Broadway, but at some point they started sticking "Avenue" to the end of it and now its Broadway Avenue.
Conversely, we have a John Street Road, which is the road that leads you to John Street, which goes to Oliver Road, which leads to the township of Oliver, which is where John Street Road begins.
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Originally Posted by Beedok
It always bothers me when a city has a street named 'Main Street' that's just some irrelevant side street.
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Thunder Bay's Main Street is the road to the port, the only things on it are warehouses and big box stores. Although considering the history of Thunder Bay, it's probably better that we didn't have a Main Street in the first place. It's bad enough people are still bitter over the renaming of Port Arthur's Arthur Street.
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Originally Posted by jmt18325
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If they get to count North Osborne and Osborne as two different names, then I live on:
West Arthur-Arthur-Simpson-Fort William-South Water-North Water-North Cumberland-Hodder-Copenhagen Street/Road/Avenue. And that's 9 names.
Thunder Bay also has Edward-Golf Links-Junot-River (soon to be Edward-Golf Links-Northwest-Wardrope and Junot-River), Dawson-Red River-St. Patrick-Red River (formerly Red River-Dawson-Red River-St. Patrick-Arthur) and John Street/Valley-John/Oliver-Balmoral-Balmoral-Waterloo (two different Balmoral Streets got connected by an S-curve and a third Balmoral runs parallel to Waterloo, while Valley branches off John Street to the north and John Street ends at High Street but Oliver Road, beside it, becomes John Street and continues eastward).
We complain about this a lot but it's not as bad as Winnipeg and K-W. All of our street names are at identifiable locations and there is a clear reason behind them.
The annoying thing is that street numbers flip back and forth all the time, and reset in the middle of Fort William.
In regards to naming in subdivisions, Thunder Bay doesn't allow duplication unless the duplicate named streets branches off of a street with the same name. (Fairbanks Place can branch off of Fairbanks Crescent—and it does—but it couldn't branch off of Cascade Crescent one block over; but Cascade Place could.)
Streets must follow a common theme within a subdivision without confusing duplication.
River Terrace has a water and light theme, with street names like Cascade, Sunrise, Creek, Riviera, and Rainbow.
Jumbo Gardens, where I grew up, has a theme of "The people and places in the life of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington". It's over 100 years old and everyone pronounces Junot wrong. (It should be pronounced like Juno, people here say Jew-not).
Sherwood Estates has a Robin Hood theme,
Gemstone Estates has a gemstone theme,
County Park is named for counties in England.
Part of our North End is named for Great Lakes and the cities on them, streets in
West End and
Edgewater are named for trees.
South Port Arthur has numbered streets—we have a unique take on those I'll explain in a moment.
Fort William's East End, circa 1870, is named for HBC/NWC figures to the east, and CPR figures to the west.
Northwood Park, Thornloe Park and College Park are for the most part named for colleges and universities in Ontario (and, for whatever reason, this is the neighbourhood in Northern Ontario with the highest concentration of people with post-secondary diplomas),
Parkdale has a wildlife theme. Etc.
We have a Herald Street and Herald Crescent and a Norah Street and Norah Crescent, the streets are residential streets and the crescents are industrial streets across a river from them, but they line up. The different suffix just lets you know which one is which.
I'm not going to touch house numbers and cardinal directions because that's something Thunder Bay really does terribly wrong. Numbered streets are just something we did stupid:
This kind of makes sense. Sure they're spelled out which is uncommon but they're all the same.
Haha, oops.
Considering there is no 9th Avenue, I guess they just alternate then?
Nope. Still fucked up. (There is no 14th or 15th Avenue either.)
Also, the cardinal directions can go before or after the street. As far as their concerned, North Cumberland Street and Cumberland Street North are equally valid, and signs will vary on where they put the N. depending on who made the sign and when it was made.
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That always cracked me up.
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