Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Abbot Avenue |
Named for Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, Prime Minister of Canada (1891-1892) |
|
Mosaic |
Abbotsford Crescent |
Named after Abbotsford, British Columbia, a town about 80 kilometers east of Vancouver |
|
Mosaic |
Aberdeen Avenue |
Named for the Marquis of Aberdeen, Governor-General of Canada (1893-1898) who visited Winnipeg in 1895 and 1915; other Winnipeg street commemorating Governors General include Athlone Drive, Byng Place, Devonshire Drive, Dufferin Avenue, Grey Street, Lansdowne Avenue, Leger Crescent, Lisgar Avenue, Lorne Avenue, Minto Street, Monck Avenue, Stanley Street, Tweedsmuir Road, Vanier Drive, and Vincent Massey Boulevard; formerly Limit Street |
1903 |
Harry Shave, Winnipeg Free Press January 1962 |
Academy Road |
Named for St. Mary’s Academy, a Catholic school for girls, which is situated at the beginning of the street; formerly Godfrey Avenue and Bridge Street |
1903 |
Mosaic, MHS |
Adam Street |
Renamed from Bray Street in 1963 |
1963 |
14 |
Adamson Street |
Named for John Evans Adamson, Chief Justice of Manitoba (1955-1961) |
|
Mosaic |
Addis Avenue |
Formerly Gunn Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Addison Crescent |
Named for Joseph Addison (1672-1719), an English writer and member of Parliament |
|
Mosaic |
Adelaide Street |
According to historian Harry Shave, named “after the daughter of a prominent citizen;” it may have been Adelaide Rowand, daughter of John Rowand and wife of John Balsillie |
|
Harry Shave, Winnipeg Free Press 3 August 1963; MHS |
Adele Avenue |
Formerly a portion of Yarwood Avenue, renamed for Adele, the given name of the founder of St. Edward Catholic Convent |
|
Mosaic, MHS |
Admiral Avenue |
Formerly Anderson Avenue |
|
MHS |
Agar Avenue |
Named for Harry Agar, station agent at Bird’s Hill for the Canadian Pacific Railway during the early 1900s |
|
Mosaic |
Agassiz Drive |
Named for 19th century Swiss geologist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, as was Lake Agassiz, a glacial lake which once covered much of Manitoba |
|
Mosaic |
Agate Bay |
Streets were assigned certain letters of the alphabet for easier identification of a specific area by Ladco Developers of Windsor Park; here Agate because of the initial A |
|
Mosaic |
Agincourt Road |
Battle of Agincourt, France, in 1415 |
|
Mosaic |
Aikins Street |
Named for James Cox Aikins, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (1882-1888); “Aikins Street for Governor Aikins” Hislop Streets of Winnipeg, page 32; formerly Walker Street and Jones Street |
1872 |
Harry Shave |
Albany Street |
A street in the north end, not the one in St. James, was renamed Leo Novak Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Albert Street |
Named for Prince Albert, the Prince Consort of Queen Victoria |
1893 |
Mosaic |
Alberta Avenue |
Renamed Yukon Avenue in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Alexander Avenue |
Named for Winnipeg Mayor Alexander Logan; see also George Street and Logan Avenue |
1893 |
Mary Hislop |
Alex Taylor Drive |
Named for civil servant Alexander Taylor |
|
MHS |
Alfred Avenue |
According to Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names, named for politician Alfred Boyd, who is also commemorated in Boyd Avenue; however, Pioneers and Prominent Citizens of Manitoba indicates it was named for Alfred William Burrows, an early Winnipeg land developer, and uncle to lumberman Theodore Arthur Burrows |
1893 |
Mosaic, Prominent |
Allan Street |
Named for businessman William Rae Allan |
1915 |
Mosaic |
Allard Avenue |
Named for missionary and cleric Joachim Allard |
|
MHS |
Allenby Crescent |
Named for municipal employee Allenby Kitchener Ballendine (1924-2009) |
|
51 |
Allen Rouse Cove |
Named for community activist Allen Rouse |
|
|
Alloway Avenue |
Named for banker William Forbes Alloway |
1898 |
Mosaic |
Alverstone Street |
Named for Richard Everard Alverstone (1842-1915) |
1903 |
Mosaic |
Amarynth Crescent |
Former Amarynth Bay |
1963 |
14 |
Amherst Street |
Renamed Avonherst Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Anderson Avenue |
Named for cleric David Anderson |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Mary Andree Way |
Named for community activitist Mary Andree |
|
MHS |
Andrews Street |
Named for Winnipeg Mayor Alfred Joseph Andrews |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Angela Street |
Formerly Halls Street |
1963 |
14 |
Annabella Street |
Named for Annabella Duff, a young girl who lived at Higgins and Annabella Streets
Annabella was merged with Rachel in 1908 but the Annabella name was restored in 1913. In March 1952, a municipal decision to revert to Rachel Street was reversed a few weeks later. There were five residences on Rachel, with four residences and the J. R. Watkins Company on Annabella. The deciding factor was the volume of already-purchased corporate letterhead that would be obsoleted should the Rachel name be chosen. Council approved the Annabella name on 28 April 1952. |
1874 |
Mosaic, 28 |
Arbuthnot Street |
Named for Winnipeg Mayor John Arbuthnot; formerly Aynsley Street |
Renamed March 1959 |
40 |
Arby Bay |
Formerly Brazier Street |
1963 |
14 |
Archibald Street |
Named for Adams George Archibald, the first Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba; see Montcalm Street |
1908 |
Harry Shave |
Arctic Street |
Originally named Bricker Street for ice merchant Delmond O. Bricker, renamed for his company Arctic Ice in 1959 |
1874 (renamed March 1959) |
4, 40 |
Arena Road |
Renamed from Centre Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Argyle Street |
Named for the Duke of Argyll, also known as the Marquis of Lorne, son-in-law to Queen Victoria; see also Lorne Avenue, Louise Street and Princess Street |
1873 |
Harry Shave |
Arlington Street |
Formerly Brant Street, Brown Street, Eversley Street, Meader Street, River Street |
|
MHS |
Arnold Avenue |
Formerly Louise Street |
1893 |
50 |
Arthur Street |
Named for businessman Arthur Wellington Ross |
1873 |
Harry Shave |
Artillery Street |
Formerly Queen Street |
|
MHS |
Ash Street |
Formerly Central Avenue |
1881 (renamed 1893) |
Harry Shave, 50 |
Ashdown Street |
Named for businessman and Winnipeg Mayor James Henry Ashdown |
|
Harry Shave |
Asquith Avenue |
Formerly Beresford Avenue |
|
MHS |
Assiniboine Drive |
Renamed Wellington Crescent in 1959 |
|
40 |
Athlone Drive |
Named for Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, First Earl of Athlone and Prince Alexander of Teck (1874-1957), who served as Governor General of Canada from 1940 to 1946; other Winnipeg street commemorating Governors General include Aberdeen Avenue, Byng Place, Devonshire Drive, Dufferin Avenue, Grey Street, Lansdowne Avenue, Leger Crescent, Lisgar Avenue, Lorne Avenue, Minto Street, Monck Avenue, Stanley Street, Tweedsmuir Road, Vanier Drive, and Vincent Massey Boulevard |
|
MHS |
Atlantic Avenue |
Formerly Crawford Avenue, Pacific Avenue |
|
MHS |
Atwood Avenue |
Named for Second World War Flight Sergeant Bertram Edwin Atwood; formerly Princess Street |
1963 |
14, 23 |
Aubrey Street |
Formerly Aubrey Avenue |
1893 |
50 |
Austin Street |
Named for businessman Albert William Austin |
1872 |
MHS |
Avonherst Street |
Renamed from Amherst Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Aynsley Street |
Named for Donald Aynsley Ross, son of businessman Arthur Wellington Ross; renamed Arbuthnot Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Balderstone Road |
Formerly Ferry Road |
1963 |
14 |
Baldock Street |
Formerly Scotia Street |
1963 |
14 |
Baldwin Street |
Formerly Scotia Street |
1963 |
14 |
Balmoral Place |
Renamed Balmoral Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Balmoral Street |
Named for Balmoral Castle, a Scottish residence of Queen Victoria; see also Balmoral Place |
1880 |
Mary Hislop, Harry Shave |
Baltimore Road |
Formerly Florence Avenue |
|
MHS, 42 |
Banfield Street |
Renamed from Fairfield Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Bannatyne Avenue |
Named for Andrew Graham Ballenden Bannatyne; formerly Sinclair Avenue |
1876 |
21 |
Bannerman Avenue |
Named for George Bannerman (?-1885), first resident of the avenue and property owner |
1881 |
Harry Shave |
Banning Street |
Named for early pioneer William Ward Banning; formerly Banning Avenue |
1893 |
3, 50 |
Banting Drive |
Named for medical researcher Frederick Banting, who discovered insulin; the street is near Best Street; formerly St. Charles Boulevard |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Barber Street |
Named for pioneer businessman Edmund Lorenzo Barber; formerly Yonge Street |
1893 |
Harry Shave |
Barker Boulevard |
Possibly named for Winnipeg plumbing businessman John Barker |
|
32 |
Barnes Street |
Formerly Nares Street |
|
MHS |
Bartlet Avenue |
Probably named for agronomist James W. Bartlett |
1904 |
Mosaic |
Bates Avenue |
Named for Transcona serviceman Arthur John “Jack” Bate, son of Arthur Thomas Bate |
|
29 |
Bathgate Bay |
Named for pioneer merchant Robert Dundas Bathgate |
|
Mosaic |
Battery Street |
Formerly King Street |
|
MHS |
Beatrice Street |
Formerly Counter Street |
|
MHS |
Beauty Avenue |
Formerly Perth Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Bedson Street |
Named for Samuel Lawrence Bedson; formerly Whittier Street |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Belcourt Bay |
Named for cleric Georges Antoine Belcourt |
1874 |
Mosaic |
Belfast Street |
Formerly Dublin Street (1917) |
Before 1941 |
55 |
Bell Avenue |
Named for William Robert Bell |
1898 |
Mosaic |
Bellavance Street |
Formerly Walker Street |
1963 |
14 |
Bender Avenue |
Formerly McArthur Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Ben Hewak Bay |
Named for judge Benjamin Hewak |
|
MHS |
Benson Avenue |
Named for physician Edward Benson; formerly St. Anthony Avenue |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Bernardine Avenue |
Formerly Stafford Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Bernier Bay |
Named for politician Thomas Alfred Bernier |
|
Mosaic |
Berry Street |
Named for businessman and politician Thomas Berry |
|
Mosaic |
Besant Street |
Named for early settler and East Kildonan councillor Arthur Besant |
|
MHS |
Best Street |
Named for medical researcher Charles Best, who discovered insulin; the street is near Banting Drive; formerly Queen Street |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Betournay Street |
Named for judge Louis Betournay |
1920 |
Mosaic |
Bishop Grandin Boulevard |
Named for cleric Vital Justin Grandin; see also Grandin Street and St. Vital Road |
|
Mosaic |
Keith Black Bay |
See Keith Black Bay |
|
MHS |
Blechner Drive |
Named for municipal official John Stephan Blechner |
|
16 |
Blostein Bay |
Named for businessman Joseph Blostein |
|
MHS |
Bole Street |
Named for druggist and Winnipeg alderman David Wesley Bole; formerly Rose Street |
|
MHS |
Borebank Street |
Named for real estate developer John James Borebank, who perished in the sinking of the RMS Titanic; see also Fortune Street |
|
MHS |
Boreham Boulevard |
Named for journalist Bruce Boreham |
|
22 |
Borrowman Place |
Named for LeRoy Franklin Borrowman, long-time assessment commissioner for the City of Winnipeg |
|
48 |
Bourget Street |
Formerly St. Joseph Street |
1963 |
14 |
Bower Boulevard |
Named for Tuxedo municipal councillor Perry Bower |
|
22 |
Boyce Street |
Formerly Boyce Avenue |
1893 |
50 |
Boyd Avenue |
According to Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names, was named for politician Alfred Boyd |
before 1908 |
Mosaic |
Bray Street |
Renamed to Adam Street in 1963 |
|
14 |
Brazier Street |
Named for gardener Albert Brazier |
1904 |
Harry Shave |
Bredin Drive |
Named for municipal official Albert Ryerson Bredin; renamed from Hamilton Place in 1913 |
1913 |
MHS |
Brereton Road |
Named for engineer Wilfred Proctor Brereton |
|
Mosaic |
Bricker Avenue |
Named for pioneering ice merchant Delmond O. Bricker; renamed to Arctic Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Bridge Street |
Renamed from Park Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Broadway |
Named by the Hudson’s Bay Company as the primary east-west thoroughfare through its Reserve in Winnipeg; Interestingly, several towns in Manitoba have main streets named Broadway; Note that the name should be appended with neither Street nor Avenue; it is just Broadway |
1873 |
MHS |
Brock Street |
Named for General Isaac Brock (1769-1812), who fought the 1812 battle of Queenston Heights, near Niagara Falls, Ontario; see also Niagara Street and Queenston Street |
1906 |
Mosaic |
Brookside Boulevard |
Formerly named Sharp Boulevard for Winnipeg politician Charles Wallace Sharp |
|
Harry Shave |
Bryce Avenue |
Named for educator and cleric George Bryce; renamed in July 1882 to avoid confusion with Tache Avenue in St. Boniface |
1881 |
Harry Shave |
Buchanan Boulevard |
Not to be confused with Buchanan Street |
|
MHS |
Buchanan Street |
Renamed Rutherford Street in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Buckingham Road |
Named for pioneering newspaperman William Buckingham |
|
Mosaic |
Buller Street |
Probably named for British general Redvers Henry Buller (1839-1908) |
|
MHS |
Burnell Street |
|
|
MHS |
Burns Road |
Named for cattle dealer and meat packer Patrick Burns (1856-1937); see also Patrick Street; formerly Prairie Road |
|
Mosaic |
Burrows Avenue |
Named for pioneer lumberman Theodore Arthur Burrows or possibly his uncle, real estate developer Alfred William Burrows |
before 1908 |
Prominent, Harry Shave |
Byars Bay |
Named for Peter Ferguson Copland Byars, Secretary-Treasurer of East Kildonan from 1956 to 1961 |
|
MHS |
Byng Place |
Named for Julian Hedworth George Byng, First Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862-1935), who served as Governor General of Canada from 1921 to 1926; other Winnipeg street commemorating Governors General include Aberdeen Avenue, Athlone Drive, Devonshire Drive, Dufferin Avenue, Grey Street, Lansdowne Avenue, Leger Crescent, Lisgar Avenue, Lorne Avenue, Minto Street, Monck Avenue, Stanley Street, Tweedsmuir Road, Vanier Drive, and Vincent Massey Boulevard |
|
MHS, Mosaic |
Byrd Avenue |
Named for American explorer Richard Byrd (1888-1957) |
|
Mosaic |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Cambridge Street |
Formerly Cambridge Avenue; named for Cambridge University; other Winnipeg streets commemorating academic institutions include Bishops Lane, Cambridge Street, Harvard Avenue, Laval Drive, Macalester Bay, McGill Avenue, Mount Allison Bay, Oxford Street, Purdue Bay, Rutgers Bay, Ryerson Avenue, Selwyn Place, Yale Avenue, and others |
1882, 1893 |
Mosaic, 50 |
Camden Place |
|
|
|
Cameron Street |
Named for fur trader Duncan Cameron |
1905 |
Mosaic |
Campbell Street |
Named for former Winnipeg alderman Christopher Campbell |
1906 |
Harry Shave |
Canora Street |
It derives its name from the Canadian Northern Railway, predecessor of today’s CNR, taking the first two letters of each of the words in the railway name; formerly Lendrum Street (northernmost portion), Mable Street |
1905 |
MHS, Mosaic |
Carlton Street |
Named for the Hudson’s Bay Company trading post Fort Carlton, which was burned and abandoned in 1885; see also Edmonton, Ellice, Fort, Garry, Qu’Appelle, York |
1881 |
Harry Shave |
Carriere Avenue |
Named for voyageur and early settler André Carriére Sr. (1779-1861) along whose land the road ran; formerly Third Avenue |
1983 |
8 |
Carruthers Avenue |
Named for George Frederick Carruthers |
|
Harry Shave |
Carter Avenue |
Named for builder William Henry Carter; formerly Carlaw Avenue |
1913 |
Mosaic |
Cathcart Street |
Named for John Holmes Cathcart |
1962 |
Mosaic |
Cathedral Avenue |
Named for nearby St. John’s Cathedral, which was named in 1853 by cleric David Anderson; formerly Grove Avenue |
1882 (renamed 1893) |
Harry Shave, 50 |
Caton Street |
Named for Edwin Victor Caton, former executive of the Winnipeg Electric Company |
|
Mosaic |
Cauchon Street |
Named for Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor Joseph Edouard Cauchon |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Cavell Drive |
Formerly Munro Street |
|
MHS |
Centre Street |
Renamed to Arena Road in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Century |
Formerly Bradford |
|
MHS |
Charles Street |
Named for Charles J. Brown, city clerk for Winnipeg (1883-1923); formerly named for Rev. John West, the first Anglican cleric in Western Canada; formerly West Street, Market Street |
1876 (renamed 1906) |
Harry Shave, 21 |
Charles Hawkins Bay |
Named for Knowles Centre Superintendent Charles J. Hawkins |
|
MHS |
Charlotte Street |
According to historian Harry Shave, named “after the daughter of a prominent citizen,” possibly Winnipeg Mayor Alexander Logan |
|
Harry Shave |
Chataway Boulevard |
Named for surveyor Charles Clifton Chataway, who surveyed much of the land in the Charleswood area |
1911 |
Mosaic |
Cherrier Street |
Named for cleric Alphonsus Avila Cherrier |
|
Mosaic |
Chestnut Street |
Formerly Maple Avenue, Shore Street |
1893 (renamed 1892, 1910) |
Harry Shave |
Chevrier Boulevard |
Named for politician Noé (Noah) Chevrier |
1912 |
Mosaic |
Chochinov Avenue |
Names for farmers Jacob and Tuba Chochinov |
|
33 |
Chornick Drive |
Named for community activist Steve Chornick |
|
MHS |
Christie Road |
Named for William John Christie, owner of the property on which the street was developed |
|
Mosaic |
Church Avenue |
Named for nearby St. John’s Cathedral, which was named in 1853 by cleric David Anderson |
1881 |
Harry Shave |
Churchill Drive |
Named for British politician Winston L. S. Churchill (1874-1965) |
1942 |
Mosaic |
Clarke Street |
Named for Manitoba attorney general and premier, Henry Joseph Clarke |
1874 (named 1883) |
4 |
William R. Clement Parkway |
Named for Winnipeg councillor William Ralph “Bill” Clement; formerly Charleswood Parkway |
2002 (renamed 2010) |
27 |
Clifton Street |
Formerly Munroe Avenue, Clifton Avenue |
1893 |
50 |
Cochrane Street |
Renamed from Semple Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Cockburn Street |
Named for city alderman John Wesley Cockburn (1856-1924); formerly named for a relative of businessman Arthur Wellington Ross (1846-1901) who was visiting at the time the road was laid down; formerly Helen Street |
renamed 1915 |
Harry Shave |
Code Street |
Named for William “Billy” Code, fire chief for the City of Winnipeg from 1874 to 1914 |
1966 |
Mosaic |
Colgate Road |
Formerly Buckingham Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Colish Drive |
Named for municipal councillor Isaac Colish |
|
MHS |
Colleen Street |
Renamed Deacon Street in March 1959 |
|
40 |
College Avenue |
Named for St. John’s College |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Colony Street |
Named for Colony Creek which, in the early days of Winnipeg, drained a section of the prairie from near what is now Notre Dame Avenue to the river |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Colvin Avenue |
Named for John Colvin, Secretary of the East Kildonan School District in 1923 and from 1926 to 1946 |
|
MHS |
Comdale Avenue |
Formerly Camrose Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Copeland Street |
Formerly First Street |
1963 |
14 |
Cork Avenue |
Named for banker Samuel Lawrence Cork |
1914 |
Mosaic |
Cornell Drive |
Named for Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; other Winnipeg streets commemorating academic institutions include Bishops Lane, Cambridge Street, Harvard Avenue, Laval Drive, Macalester Bay, McGill Avenue, Mount Allison Bay, Oxford Street, Purdue Bay, Rutgers Bay, Ryerson Avenue, Selwyn Place, Yale Avenue, and others |
|
MHS |
Cornish Avenue |
Named for Winnipeg Mayor Francis Evans Cornish |
before 1908 |
MHS |
Corydon Avenue |
Named for Corydon Partlow Brown; in 1950, Jackson Avenue was renamed the westward extension of Corydon Avenue; formerly Jackson Avenue (part) |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave, 46 |
Coulter Avenue |
Renamed from Lynn Avenue in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Coutts Avenue |
Formerly Young Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Cox Boulevard |
Named for Herbert R. Cox, who sold the land for it to the City of Winnipeg for $1 |
1963 |
14, 35 |
Craig Street |
Named for politician Richard W. Craig |
1905 |
Mosaic |
Crofton Bay |
Named for John Folliott Crofton |
|
Mosaic |
Crozier Avenue |
Named for North Kildonan municipal councillor G. Crozier; formerly Norman Street |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Cunnington Avenue |
Named for butcher Charles Cunnington, who owned the land on which the street was developed |
|
Mosaic |
Curtis Street |
Formerly Annie Street |
1876 |
21 |
Cusson Street |
Named for Joseph Arthur Cusson, alderman for the City of St. Boniface from 1903 to 1904, and from 1906 to 1908 |
|
Mosaic |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Daer Boulevard |
Named for James Dunbar, the Sixth Earl of Selkirk (1809-1885), son of Lord Selkirk; formerly Park Boulevard |
1963 |
MHS, 14 |
Dafoe Road |
Named for newspaperman John Wesley Dafoe; see also Macklin Avenue, McCurdy Street and Richardson Avenue |
|
MHS |
Dagmar Street |
According to historian Harry Shave, named “after the daughter of a prominent citizen” |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Dalgleish Bay |
Named for the L. Dalgleish Developments Limited owned by Laverne Dalgleish |
|
44 |
Dalhousie Drive |
Named for Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia; other Winnipeg streets commemorating academic institutions include Bishops Lane, Cambridge Street, Harvard Avenue, Laval Drive, Macalester Bay, McGill Avenue, Mount Allison Bay, Oxford Street, Purdue Bay, Rutgers Bay, Ryerson Avenue, Selwyn Place, Yale Avenue, and others |
|
MHS |
Daly Street |
Named for judge Thomas Mayne Daly; formerly John Street |
1910 (renamed 1913) |
Harry Shave |
Daniel Street |
formerly Nathaniel Street |
1963 |
14 |
Dan H. Young Bay |
Named for Knowles Centre Superintendent Daniel H. “Dan” Young |
|
MHS |
Darling Street |
Named for Toronto architect Frank Darling (1853-1923), who designed the Union Bank building in Winnipeg |
1904 |
Mosaic |
Darwin Street |
Named for British scientist Charles R. Darwin (1809-1882) |
|
Mosaic |
Davidson Street |
Named for businessman John Andrew Davidson |
|
Mosaic |
Dawson Road |
Named for civil engineer Simon James Dawson; formerly Lamont Street |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Day Street |
Named for Arthur Day, Transcona school trustee from 1949 to 1952, chairman from 1952 to 1962; formerly Oxford Street |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Deacon Street |
Renamed from Colleen Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Deer Lodge Place |
Formerly Oakdale Place |
1963 |
14 |
Delmar Street |
|
c1912 |
55 |
Derby Street |
Formerly Machray Street |
|
MHS |
Derek Street |
Formerly Thurso Street |
1963 |
14 |
Des Meurons Street |
Named for Swiss mercenaries hired by Lord Selkirk to protect colonists at the Red River Settlement |
|
MHS |
Devon Street |
Renamed to Dorset Street in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Devonshire Drive |
Named for Victor Christian William Cavendish, Ninth Duke of Devonshire (1868-1938), who served as Governor General of Canada from 1916 to 1921; other Winnipeg street commemorating Governors General include Aberdeen Avenue, Athlone Drive, Byng Place, Dufferin Avenue, Grey Street, Lansdowne Avenue, Leger Crescent, Lisgar Avenue, Lorne Avenue, Minto Street, Monck Avenue, Stanley Street, Tweedsmuir Road, Vanier Drive, and Vincent Massey Boulevard |
|
MHS |
Dewdney Avenue |
Named for Edgar Dewdney (1835-1916), who served as Indian Commissioner and Lieutenant-Governor of the North West Territories, before parts were partitioned off as Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1905; he was later appointed Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia |
1881 |
Mosaic, MHS |
Dexter Street |
Named for journalist Alexander Grant Dexter; formerly Fourth Street |
1906 |
Mosaic |
Dirk Avenue |
Formerly McLean Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Disraeli Street (Freeway) |
Named for Benjamin Disraeli, First Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881), British politician and novelist, who served as prime minister in 1867 and 1870 to 1880; see also Gladstone Street |
1873 |
Mosaic |
Dobbie Avenue |
Named for municipal official David Morton Dobbie; formerly Larsen Avenue |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Dohaney Crescent |
Named for teacher Catherine Annie Dohaney, who taught at the nearby Kirkfield Park School in the 1910s and 1920s |
|
MHS |
Dollard Boulevard |
Formerly Hospital Boulevard |
|
MHS |
Dominion Street |
Formerly Dominion Avenue |
1893 |
50 |
Donald Street |
Named for Donald Alexander Smith, an official of the Hudson’s Bay Company |
before 1908 |
MHS |
Donald McClintock Bay |
Named for Knowles Centre Superintendent Donald McClintock |
|
MHS |
Donalda Avenue |
Named for Donalda Elizabeth Munroe (1906-1921) |
|
Mosaic, 12 |
Donnelly Street |
Named for cleric Walter Edward Donnelly; formerly Metro Street |
? |
MHS |
Dorchester Avenue |
Formerly Gertrude Avenue West |
|
34 |
Dorothy Street |
Formerly Harriet Street |
|
MHS |
Dorset Street |
Renamed from Devon Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Douglas Avenue |
Named for Thomas Douglas, Fifth Earl of Selkirk (1771-1820); see also Point Douglas Avenue and Selkirk Avenue |
|
Mosaic |
Downing Street |
Formerly Dufferin Avenue |
|
50 |
Dowse Street |
Named for businessman and St. Boniface Mayor Francis Robert “Frank” Dowse |
|
Mosaic |
Drisby Street |
Formerly Dumas Street |
1963 |
14 |
Drummond Place |
Formerly Shelley Place |
1963 |
14 |
Dubuc Street |
Named for politician and judge Joseph Dubuc |
before 1908 |
MHS |
Dudley Avenue |
Named for Guildford Dudley; formerly Dufferin Avenue |
|
Mosaic |
Dufferin Avenue |
Named for Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, First Marquess of Dufferin (1826-1902), who visited Winnipeg during his tenure as Canadian Governor General from 1872 to 1878; other Winnipeg street commemorating Governors General include Aberdeen Avenue, Athlone Drive, Byng Place, Devonshire Drive, Grey Street, Lansdowne Avenue, Leger Crescent, Lisgar Avenue, Lorne Avenue, Minto Street, Monck Avenue, Stanley Street, Tweedsmuir Road, Vanier Drive, and Vincent Massey Boulevard |
1872 |
MHS |
Dufresne Avenue |
Formerly Dufferin Avenue |
1893 |
50 |
Rue Dugas |
Named for cleric and author Georges Dugas |
|
Mosaic |
Dumas Avenue |
Named for builder and politician Joseph Pierre Dumas |
|
MHS |
Rue Dumoulin |
Named for Father Dumoulin, priest of St. Boniface during the time of Louis Riel |
before 1908 |
Mosaic |
Duncan Street |
Named for lawyer Derward Alton Duncan, renamed from Harold Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
Mosaic, 40 |
Dunits Drive |
Formerly Brock Street |
1963 |
14 |
Dutton Avenue |
Formerly Broad Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Dysart Road |
Named for judge Andrew Knox Dysart |
|
Mosaic |
Dyson Avenue |
Renamed from Murray Avenue in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
East Gate |
The street name commemorates the gates that were erected at its entrance; see also Middle Gate and West Gate; formerly Assiniboine Avenue |
1910 |
MHS |
Eaton Street |
Named for the Eaton family, headed by patriarch Timothy Eaton (1834-1907), which established a national chain of department stores |
1903 |
Mosaic |
Ebby Avenue |
Formerly Arnold Avenue, Louise Avenue |
|
MHS |
Edison Avenue |
Named for American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
|
Mosaic |
Edmonton Street |
Named for the Hudson’s Bay Company trading post Fort Edmonton, which later became the city of Edmonton; see also Carlton, Ellice, Fort, Garry, Qu’Appelle, York |
1881 |
Harry Shave |
Edna Perry Way |
Named for educator and cleric Edna Lenora Perry |
|
31 |
Egesz Street |
Named for land developer Bert Egesz |
|
MHS (J. A. Burns) |
Elaine Place |
Named for Elaine Quiring, daughter of the street’s developer; see also Quiring Bay and Karen Street |
|
Mosaic |
Elgin Avenue |
Originally named for Jemima Ross, a daughter of HBC employee and historian Alexander Ross; formerly Jemima Avenue |
1894 (renamed 1906) |
Harry Shave |
Ellen Street |
Named for Ellen Ross, daughter of William Ross; formerly Cathedral Street |
1893 |
Vince Leah (Tribune 29 Jan 1969) |
Ellice Avenue |
Named for the Hudson’s Bay Company trading post Fort Ellice in southwestern Manitoba which, in turn, was named for HBC investor Edward Ellice; see also Carlton, Edmonton, Fort, Garry, Qu’Appelle, York; formerly Nellie Avenue |
1881 |
MHS |
Elm Street |
Renamed to avoid confusion with Euclid Avenue in Point Douglas; formerly Euclid Street |
1881 (renamed 1893) |
Harry Shave, 50 |
Elmwood Street |
Renamed to Molson Street in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Emily Street |
According to historian Harry Shave, named “after the daughter of a prominent citizen” |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Empress Street |
Formerly Queen's Street |
1893 |
50 |
Emslie Street |
Named for John Emslie, an accountant at Ashdown Hardware Company, and first clerk of Knox Presbyterian Church (1873); formerly Cochrane Street |
1882 |
Mosaic |
Erin Street |
Formerly West McPhillips Street, St. Patrick Street |
1893 |
MHS, 50 |
Essar Avenue |
Named for Samuel Robert Henderson; his initials were spelled phonetically to make this street name |
|
Mosaic, MHS |
Euclid Avenue |
Named for the Greek mathematician Euclid who developed geometry; the street is so named because it is a straight line bissecting other streets through the Point Douglas area of Winnipeg |
1898 |
MHS |
Evans Street |
Named for Winnipeg Mayor William Sanford Evans |
|
Mosaic |
Evanson Street |
Named for William Henry Evanson, comptroller for the City of Winnipeg in the early 1900s; formerly Horne Street, Wood Street |
1911 |
Mosaic |
Evelyn Shannon Place |
Named for politician Evelyn Foster Shannon |
|
MHS |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Fairfield Avenue |
Formerly Stonewall Avenue |
|
MHS |
Fairfield Street |
Renamed to Banfield Street in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Fanta Street |
Formerly Forrest Street |
1963 |
14 |
Farlinger Bay |
Named for Eveline Partidge Farlinger and her husband David Edmund Farlinger (1890-1970) |
|
18 |
Fennell Street |
Named for municipal official Leslie Raymond Fennell |
|
Mosaic |
Fernbank Street |
Formerly Jaffray Street |
1963 |
14 |
Ferry Road |
At one time, the street led to a ferry across the Assiniboine River |
|
Mosaic |
Fidler Avenue |
Named for fur trader Peter Fidler |
|
Mosaic |
Finkelstein Road |
Named for David R. Finkelstein, Mayor of the Tuxedo area of Winnipeg from 1914 to 1950 |
|
Mosaic |
Fisher Street |
Formerly Park Place |
|
MHS |
Fitzgerald Crescent |
Named for artist Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald |
|
Mosaic |
Fleet Avenue |
Formerly Lizzie Avenue |
|
MHS |
Fleming Avenue |
Named for Sandford Fleming (1827-1915), chief engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway |
|
Mosaic |
Fletcher Crescent |
Named for civil servant Robert Fletcher |
|
Mosaic |
Flora Avenue |
Historian Harry Shave gives two versions of the name’s origin; in one, it is named for the wife of early land surveyor George McPhillips; in the other, it commemorates the second given name of the wife of businessman Arthur Wellington Ross |
|
Harry Shave |
Foley Avenue |
Named for farmer Richard D. Foley |
|
Mosaic |
Forbes Road |
Named for James Wallace Forbes |
|
Mosaic |
Fordham Bay |
Named for Fordham University in New York State; other Winnipeg streets commemorating academic institutions include Bishops Lane, Cambridge Street, Harvard Avenue, Laval Drive, Macalester Bay, McGill Avenue, Mount Allison Bay, Oxford Street, Purdue Bay, Rutgers Bay, Ryerson Avenue, Selwyn Place, Yale Avenue, and others |
|
Mosaic, MHS |
Forrest Avenue |
J. B. Rudnyckyj suggested the street is named for pioneer Samuel Forrest; the basis for this conclusion is unclear, as Forrest, who homesteaded near Mowbray, appeared not to have a connection with Winnipeg warranting commemoration |
|
Mosaic, MHS |
Fort Street |
Named for the Hudson’s Bay Company trading post Fort Garry which, in turn, was named for Nicholas Garry (c1782-1856), a director of the company; see also Carlton, Edmonton, Ellice, Garry, Qu’Appelle, York |
before 1908 |
MHS |
Fortier Avenue |
Named for early resident Jean Fortier (1854-1931) |
|
39 |
Fortune Street |
Named for businessman Mark Fortune, who lost his life in the sinking of RMS Titanic; see also Borebank Street |
|
MHS |
Foster Street |
J. B. Rudnyckyj suggested the street is named for pioneer James Foster; the basis for this conclusion is unclear, as Fraser, who homesteaded near Manitou, appeared not to have a connection with Winnipeg warranting commemoration |
1903 |
Mosaic, MHS |
Fowler Street |
Named for Winnipeg Mayor Frank Oliver Fowler |
|
Harry Shave |
Franklin Bay |
Named for explorer John Franklin (1786-1847), whose expeditions tried but ultimately failed to find a North West Passage through Arctic Canada |
|
Mosaic |
Frances Street |
According to historian Harry Shave, named “after the daughter of a prominent citizen” |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Frederic Avenue |
Renamed to Taylor Avenue in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Freedman Crescent |
Named for judge Samuel Freedman, former Chancellor of the University of Manitoba |
|
Mosaic |
French Street |
Named for George Arthur French (1841-1921), first commissioner of the North West Mounted Police, precursor to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
|
Mosaic |
Frog Plain Avenue |
Formerly Bell Street |
1963 |
14 |
Furby Street |
Formerly Margaretta Street (part) |
1874 |
MHS |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Gaboury Place |
Named for pioneer Marie-Anne Gaboury; see also Lagimodiere Boulevard |
1956 |
Mosaic |
Gagnon Street |
Named for Ernest Gagnon (1884-1954), assistant city clerk of St. Boniface (1911), city clerk (1918-1933), manager of St. Boniface Hospital (1934-1951); formerly Langevin Street |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Gallagher Avenue |
Named for pioneer Patrick Gallagher, who homesteaded on the present William Avenue (1880), later becoming a well-known meat merchant |
1903 |
Mosaic |
Galloway Street |
Named for pioneer farmer John Galloway, who owned land in the vicinity of this street |
1881 |
Mosaic |
Galt Avenue |
Renamed from Robert Avenue in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Gareau Street |
Named for the Gareau brothers, who were realtors in St. Boniface between 1910 and 1925 |
1912 |
Mosaic |
Garfield Street |
Named for American president James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) |
1882 |
Mosaic |
Garrioch Avenue |
Named for cleric Alfred Campbell Garrioch |
1950 |
Mosaic |
Garry Street |
Named for the Hudson’s Bay Company trading post Fort Garry which, in turn, was named for Nicholas Garry (c1782-1856), a director of the company; see also Carlton, Edmonton, Ellice, Fort, Qu’Appelle, York |
before 1908 |
MHS |
Garton Avenue |
Named for pioneer Cannon J. Garton (1855-1936) |
1959 |
Mosaic |
Garwood Avenue |
Named for Mrs. Garwood Lewis, wife of J. A. Lewis, who was appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1920; formerly Wood Avenue |
1893 |
Mosaic |
Gateway Road |
Renamed from Wolfe Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Gauvin Street |
Named for Antoine Gauvin, Mayor of St. Boniface in 1906 |
|
Mosaic |
Gendreau Avenue |
Named for physician and coroner L. S. Gendreau (1869-1939), who served as treasurer of the St. Norbert school board from 1905 to 1937 |
|
Mosaic |
George Avenue |
Named for George Logan, son of Alexander Logan; see also Alexander Avenue and Logan Avenue |
1898 |
Mosaic |
George Barone Bay |
Named for sculptor George Barone |
|
MHS |
George Lawrence Bay |
Named for bagpiper George Lawrence |
|
MHS |
George Suttie Bay |
Named for municipal official George Nordland Suttie |
|
MHS |
Gerard Street |
Historian Harry Shave suggests the street was named for Manitoba Premier Marc Amable Girard, with a misspelling; an alternate version given by J. B. Rudnyckyj is that it commemorates Max Gerard, first Manitoba provincial treasurer (1870) |
1881 |
Harry Shave |
Gertie Street |
According to historian Harry Shave, named “after the daughter of a prominent citizen.” Rudnyckyj suggests it commemorates The Gertie H, a small steamboat on the Assiniboine and Red Rivers that was named for Gertie Hall, daughter of its owner |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Gertrude Avenue |
Named for a daughter, who died in childhood, of businessman Arthur Wellington Ross |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Gilbert Avenue |
Named for physician Thomas Walter Gilbert |
1962 |
Mosaic |
Gillson Street |
Named for Albert Henry Stewart Gillson, President of the University of Manitoba from 1948 to 1954 |
|
Mosaic |
Giroux Street |
Named for cleric Louis Raymond Giroux (1841-1911), director of St. Boniface College (1869) |
1909 |
Mosaic |
Gladstone Street |
Named for William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), who served as British Prime Minister from 1868 to 1874, 1880 to 1885, 1886 to 1892, and 1892 to 1894; see also Disraeli Street and Morley Avenue |
1882 |
Mosaic, 50 |
Glendale Avenue |
Renamed to Pelly Avenue in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Ed Golding |
Named for community activist Ed Golding |
|
MHS |
Gomez Street |
Named for William Gomez da Fonseca; see also Higgins Avenue |
before 1908 |
MHS |
Good Street |
Named for physician James Wilford Good |
1882 |
Mosaic |
Goodyear Avenue |
Named for Charles Goodyear (1852-1943), who owned a general store in Transcona in 1910, performed with Buffalo Bill in his Wild West Show |
1959 |
Mosaic |
Gordon Avenue |
Named for livestock dealer and politician James Thomas Gordon |
1906 |
Mosaic |
Gorham Street |
Named for Walter Gorham (1868-1952), secretary-treasurer of St. Paul from 1911 to 1916, secretary-treasurer of East St. Paul from 1916 to 1923 |
|
Mosaic |
Gosford Avenue |
Named for Archibald Acheson, Second Earl of Gosford (1776-1849), governor-in-chief of British North America from 1835 to 1838 |
|
Mosaic |
Goswell Road |
Named for builder Egvard A. Goswell (1883-1971), who promoted the Kirkfield Memorial Park |
|
Mosaic |
Goulding Street |
Named for pioneer Walter Llewellyn Goulding |
1910 |
Mosaic |
Goulet Street |
Named for Maxime Goulet, employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company, a member of the provincial legislative assembly (1878) and cabinet minister in 1880 |
1891 |
Mosaic |
Gowler Road |
Named for pioneers of the Headingley area Oliver Gowler and wife Mary Gowler (1812-1866) |
|
Mosaic |
Graham Avenue |
Named for fur trader James Allan Graham |
before 1908 |
Mosaic |
Grandin Street |
Named for cleric Vital Justin Grandin; see also Bishop Grandin Boulevard and St. Vital Road |
before 1908 |
Mosaic |
Grant Avenue |
Probably named for Cuthbert James Grant. The original street was quite short, from Oak to Waterloo Streets; in 1896, it was extended west to Lindsay Street, then to Lanark Street in 1910, to Cambridge by 1916, and to Kenaston Boulevard by 1929; between 1952 and 1957, it was widened and extended east, reaching Pembina Highway in the mid 1960s; see also Semple Avenue and Seven Oaks Avenue |
1881 |
Mosaic, Harry Shave, MHS |
Granville Street |
Named for George Levenson-Gower Granville (1815-1891), secretary of state for colonies, 1868-1870 and 1886, secretary of foreign affairs, 1870-1874 and 1880-1885 |
1882 |
Mosaic |
Grassie Boulevard |
Named for real estate investor William Grassie |
|
Mosaic |
Greenway Crescent |
Named for Manitoba Premier Thomas Greenway |
|
Mosaic |
Greenwood Place |
Named for farmer Greenwood Briercliffe; formerly Boyce Street |
|
MHS |
Grenfell Boulevard |
Named for Wilfred Grenfell (1865-1940), an English Protestant medical missionary to Labrador and Newfoundland in the early 1900s; formerly Granville Boulevard |
|
MHS |
Grey Street |
Named for Albert Henry George Grey (1851-1917), Governor-General of Canada from 1904 to 1911, whose donation of a cup for football is recognized by the Grey Cup; other Winnipeg street commemorating Governors General include Aberdeen Avenue, Athlone Drive, Byng Place, Devonshire Drive, Dufferin Avenue, Lansdowne Avenue, Leger Crescent, Lisgar Avenue, Lorne Avenue, Minto Street, Monck Avenue, Stanley Street, Tweedsmuir Road, Vanier Drive, and Vincent Massey Boulevard; formerly Minto Street |
1906 |
Mosaic |
Grierson Avenue |
Named for Elizabeth Grierson (1894-1984) who owned the land on which the street was subsequently developed; formerly St. Georges Avenue |
1959 |
MHS |
Grosvenor Avenue |
Named for A. G. Grosvenor, an early merchant in Winnipeg (1876); a portion was renamed from Haskins Avenue in March 1959 |
1909 (renamed 1913) |
Mosaic |
Grove Street |
J. B. Rudnyckyj suggested the street was named for author Frederick Philip Grove; this is improbable because the street was named before Grove came to prominence |
before 1908 |
Mosaic, MHS |
Guay Street |
Named for Abraham Guay |
|
Mosaic |
Guelph Street |
Named for a town in Ontario 59 miles west of Toronto, founded in 1827 by John Gault and named by him in honor of the British royal family; formerly Victoria Street |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Guilbault Street |
Named for contractor and alderman Joseph Edouard Zepherin Guilbault |
1912 |
Mosaic |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Haddow Street |
Named for municipal official John Haddow |
|
Mosaic |
Haggart Avenue |
Named for lawyer Alexander Haggart |
|
MHS |
Haig Avenue |
Named for Earl Douglas Haig (1861-1928), a British military commander during the First World War |
|
Mosaic |
Hall Road |
Named for lawyer Gavin Allan Hall |
|
Mosaic |
Hallet Street |
Named for William Hallet (1811-1872), acknowledged leader of the English Plainsmen |
before 1908 |
Mosaic |
Halliday Bay |
Named for Douce C. Halliday, mayor of St. Boniface in 1934, who died in office |
|
Mosaic |
Ham Street |
Named for journalist George Henry Ham |
|
Mosaic |
Hamel Avenue |
Named for Ovid Hamel who owned and farmed the land through which this street now passes |
|
Mosaic |
Hamelin Street |
Named for politician Joseph Hamelin (1873-1947) |
|
Mosaic |
Hamilton Avenue |
Named for Winnipeg Mayor Charles Edward Hamilton |
|
Mosaic |
Hamilton Place |
Renamed to Bredin Drive in 1913 |
|
MHS |
Haney Street |
Named for Michael John Haney (1854-1927), the civil engineer who was in charge of laying the Canadian Pacific Railway line through the Fraser River canyon, from 1883 to 1885 |
|
Mosaic |
Hansford Road |
Named for St. Boniface Mayor Edwin Arnold Hansford (1953-1954) and alderman (1932-1945) |
1971 |
Mosaic |
Hargrave Street |
Named for Joseph James Hargrave; formerly Charlotte Street |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Harkness Street |
Named for Peter Harkness, first alderman of the City of Winnipeg |
1883 |
4 |
Harmon Avenue |
Named for fur trader Daniel William Harmon |
|
Mosaic |
Harold Street |
Renamed to Duncan Street in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Harriet Street |
According to historian Harry Shave, named “after the daughter of a prominent citizen,” believed by Vince Leah to be Harriet Jane Barber Graham (1863-1962), daughter of Edmund Lorenzo Barber |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave, 48 |
Harris Boulevard |
Named for Alanson Harris (1816-1894), the first farm implements agent on the prairies, in 1879 |
|
Mosaic |
Harrow Street |
Named for a town 11 miles northwest of London, England; formerly Amelia Street, Louise Street, Mitchell Street |
|
Harry Shave |
Harstone Road |
Named for fuel dealer Frederick Stevenson Harstone |
|
MHS |
Hart Avenue |
Named for cleric Thomas Hart; formerly Stewart Avenue |
1904 |
Mosaic |
Harvard Avenue |
Named for Harvard University; other Winnipeg streets commemorating academic institutions include Bishops Lane, Cambridge Street, Laval Drive, Macalester Bay, McGill Avenue, Mount Allison Bay, Oxford Street, Purdue Bay, Rutgers Bay, Ryerson Avenue, Selwyn Place, Yale Avenue, and others |
|
MHS |
Haskins Avenue |
This road that ran westward from Cambridge Street was renamed to Grosvenor Avenue in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Haultain Crescent |
Named for Frederick William Gordon Haultain (1857-1942), early Commissioner of the North West Territories |
|
Mosaic |
Hay Street |
Named for politician Edward Henry George Gunter Hay |
|
Mosaic |
Hayes Street |
Named for the Hayes Island Post, second trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company, established by Charles Bayly in 1672-1673 at the mouth of the Moose River on James Bay |
|
Mosaic |
Headmaster Row |
Named for headmasters of the nearby Knowles Centre |
|
MHS |
Hearne Avenue |
Named for explorer Samuel Hearne (1745-1792) |
|
Mosaic |
Rue Hebert |
Named for businessman Joseph Pierre Hébert (1853-1934) |
|
MHS |
Hector Avenue |
Named for the sailing ship Hector which brought the first Scottish immigrants to Nova Scotia in 1773; formerly Hetherington Avenue |
|
Mosaic |
Henday Bay |
Named for explorer Anthony Henday who was sent by the Hudson’s Bay Company into the continental interior in 1754, becoming the first white man to see the Canadian Rockies |
|
Mosaic |
Henderson Highway |
Named for automotive pioneer Samuel Robert Henderson; formerly Kelvin Street, East Kildonan Road |
|
Note 1 |
Henry Avenue |
Possibly named for William Alexander Henry (1816-1888), Father of Canadian Confederation and judge of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1875 to 1888 |
before 1908 |
Mosaic |
Hervo Street |
Named for Mathurin Hervo (1880-1852), who immigrated to Winnipeg from France in 1900, served as alderman in Fort Garry in the 1940s |
|
Mosaic |
Hespeler Avenue |
Named for William Hespeler |
1906 |
Harry Shave |
Higgins Avenue |
Named for pioneer merchant John Higgins; formerly Victoria Avenue |
1876 |
21 |
Hill Street |
Named for railwayman James Jerome Hill; see also Hill Street, Shaughnessy Street, Stephen Street and Van Horne Street |
|
Mosaic |
Hillhouse Road |
Named for lawyer Thomas Paterson Hillhouse |
|
Mosaic |
Hind Avenue |
Named for explorer Henry Youle Hind |
|
Mosaic |
Hindley Avenue |
Named for Elizabeth Hindley, wife of Thomas Berry |
|
Mosaic |
Hoban Street |
Named for Irish immigrant James Patrick Hoban (1887-1957) who worked for the Municipality of Brooklands; formerly Herbert Street |
1964 |
Mosaic, 53 |
Hoddinott Road |
Named for early settler Edwin Hoddinott; the original road led to his farm (1883) |
|
Mosaic |
Holt Drive |
Named for Herbert Samuel Holt (1856-1941), financier, superintendent of the Canadian Pacific Railway from 1883 to 1884, contractor 1884 to 1892, and banker 1902 to 1941 |
|
Mosaic |
Home Street |
Named for Manitoba sheriff Robert Henry Home |
|
Mosaic |
Honeyman Avenue |
Named for lawyer Egbert Douglas Honeyman, Winnipeg alderman from 1929 to 1939; formerly part of Broadway |
1967 |
Mosaic |
Hopwood Drive |
Named for businessman Warren Jackson “Jack” Hopwood |
|
41 |
Hosmer Boulevard |
Named for Edward Arthur Christopher Hosmer; formerly Park Row West |
|
MHS, Mosaic |
Howard Avenue |
Named for politician Thomas Howard |
|
Mosaic |
Howden Road |
|
|
MHS |
Howe Avenue |
Named for Nova Scotia journalist and politician Joseph Howe (1804-1873) |
|
Mosaic |
Hudson Street |
Named for explorer Henry Hudson (?-1611) |
|
Mosaic |
Hugo Street |
Named for John Hugo Ross, early real estate developer who lost his life in the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, son of businessman Arthur Wellington Ross |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave, Winnipeg Free Press 16 February 1965 |
Humboldt Avenue |
Named for German explorer and scientist Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) |
|
Mosaic |
Hunt Avenue |
Named for lawyer and writer Frank Larned Hunt |
1959 |
Mosaic |
Hunter Street |
Renamed to McKenzie Street in 1894 |
|
MHS |
Huntington Drive |
Named for lawyer and politician Lucius Seth Huntington (1827-1886) |
|
Mosaic |
Huntleigh Street |
Formerly Vicar Street |
|
MHS |
Hurst Way |
Named for engineer William Donald Hurst |
|
MHS |
Husky Avenue |
Formerly Watt Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Hutchings Street |
Named for businessman Elisha Frederick Hutchings |
|
Mosaic |
Hutton Street |
Formerly Arlington Street |
1963 |
14 |
Hyde Street |
Formerly Highland Street |
1964 |
53 |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Ian Place |
Named for Ian Barry, son of North Kildonan councillor Charles Barry |
|
Mosaic |
Ingersoll Street |
Named for Major Thomas Ingersoll, father of Laura Secord, who fought in the War of 1812 |
1881 |
Mosaic |
Inglis Street |
Named for physician Maxwell Stevenson Inglis |
|
MHS |
Inkster Boulevard |
J. B. Rudnyckyj says the street is named for John Inkster, whereas historian Harry Shave believes it is named for sheriff Colin Inkster; formerly Sharp Boulevard |
1903 |
Harry Shave, Mosaic |
Irene Street |
Formerly Maud Street |
1882 (renamed 1893) |
Mosaic |
Isabel Street |
Named for Isabella Ross, daughter of HBC employee and historian Alexander Ross; formerly Prairie Street |
1874 (renamed 1893) |
Harry Shave |
Isbister Street |
Named for lawyer and educator Alexander Kennedy Isbister |
|
Mosaic |
Isbister Place |
Renamed to Webb Place in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Jack Blick Avenue |
Named for Jack Oliver Blick; formerly Rapelje Avenue |
2010 |
9 |
Jack Hawthorn Bay |
Named for Knowles Centre Superintendent Jack Hawthorn |
|
MHS |
Jack Kolt Place |
Named for John A. Kolt |
|
MHS |
Jackman Road |
Formerly James Road |
1963 |
14 |
Jackson Avenue |
Named for physician Frederick Jackson, renamed from Mason Avenue in March 1959 |
|
Mosaic, 40 |
Jacques Avenue |
Formerly Shaughnessy Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
James Street |
Named for journalist James Ross |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Jamison Avenue |
Named for Winnipeg Mayor Richard Willis Jameson |
|
Mosaic |
Jarvis Street |
Named for Edward Worrell Jarvis |
1881 |
Mosaic |
Jefferson Avenue |
Formerly Randolph Avenue |
|
18 |
Jessie Avenue |
Named for the wife of businessman Arthur Wellington Ross |
1882 |
Harry Shave |
John Black Avenue |
Named for cleric and educator John Black |
|
Mosaic |
John Bruce Road |
Formerly Bruce Road |
1963 |
14 |
John Hirsch Place |
Named for John Steven Hirsch |
|
MHS |
Johnson Avenue |
Named for Red River recorder Francis Godschall Johnson; formerly Jackson Avenue |
1906 |
Mosaic, 45 |
Jolliett Crescent |
Named for French Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet (1645-1700) |
|
Mosaic |
Jones Street |
Named for cleric David T. Jones; formerly Norman Street |
|
Harry Shave, Mosaic |
Joy Street |
Formerly Gordon Street |
1963 |
14 |
Juba Street |
Named for Daniel Juba, Mayor of Brooklands in the 1950s; formerly Eric Street |
|
MHS |
Jubilee Avenue |
Commemorates the 60th anniversary (Diamond Jubilee) of the reign of Queen Victoria, in 1897 |
|
Mosaic |
Jubinville Bay |
Named for Monseigneur Jubinville, parish priest in St. Boniface from 1917 to 1940 |
|
Mosaic |
Juno Street |
According to historian Harry Shave, named “after the daughter of a prominent citizen” |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Kane Avenue |
Named for artist Paul Kane |
|
Mosaic |
Kapelus Drive |
Named for West St. Paul municipal councilor Teofil Kapelus (1903-1999) |
|
MHS |
Karen Street |
Named for Karen Quiring, daughter of the street’s developer; see also Quiring Bay and Elaine Place |
|
Mosaic |
Kate Street |
According to historian Harry Shave, named “after the daughter of a prominent citizen” |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Kavanagh Street |
Named for cleric Francois Kavanagh |
|
Mosaic |
Kay Crescent |
Named for W. Kay, alderman in St. James-Assiniboia from 1958 to 1972 |
|
Mosaic |
Keating Avenue |
Named for pioneer geologist H. Keating |
|
Mosaic |
Keenleyside Street |
Named for lawyer William Keenleyside, employed by the Swift Canadian Company in 1912 |
1906 |
Mosaic |
Keewatin Street |
Formerly Dundas Street |
|
MHS |
Keith Road |
Named for fur trader George Keith |
|
Mosaic |
Keith Black Bay |
Named for Knowles Centre Superintendent Keith Black |
|
MHS |
Kelsey Avenue |
Named for explorer Henry Kelsey (1670-1728) |
|
Mosaic |
Kelvin Boulevard |
Named for English physicist and mathematician William Thomson Kelvin (1824-1907); formerly Birds Hill Road |
1909 |
Mosaic |
Kenaston Boulevard |
Named for Frederick Eugene Kenaston who was President of the Tuxedo Park Company which developed the Tuxedo part of Winnipeg |
1907 |
MHS |
Kennedy Street |
Named for Winnipeg Mayor William Nassau Kennedy |
1881 |
Harry Shave |
Kenny Street |
Named for W. Kenny, alderman of St. Boniface from 1911 to 1914, and from 1916 to 1919 |
|
Mosaic |
Kern Drive |
Formerly Crescent Road |
1963 |
14 |
Kildonan Drive |
Formerly East Kildonan River Drive |
? |
15 |
Kilkenny Drive |
Formerly Killarney Avenue, Killarney Street |
1963 |
14 |
Kilmer Avenue |
Named for American journalist and poet Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1866-1918) |
|
Mosaic |
Kimberly Avenue |
Formerly Melrose Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
King Street |
Named for cleric John Mark King |
1881 |
Mosaic |
Kingsbury Avenue |
Formerly Kildonan Avenue |
1959 |
15 |
Kingsford Avenue |
Named for engineer William Kingsford (1819-1898), who was employed as a civic engineer on the Hudson Bay Railway |
|
Mosaic |
Kingsway |
Formerly Colquhoun Street, Ethel Street |
|
MHS |
Kirkfield Street |
Named for the birthplace of entrepreneur William Mackenzie, whose son Roderick John Mackenzie developed the area of Kirkfield Park in which this street is located |
|
Mosaic |
Kirton Avenue |
Formerly Wellington Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Kisil Bay |
Named for Stephan A. Kisil, an early East Kildonan storekeeper and one of the founders of Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Church |
|
Mosaic |
Kitson Street |
Named for businessman Norman Wolfred Kittson |
before 1908 |
Mosaic |
Knowles Avenue |
Named for William Alfred “Wilfred” Knowles, namesake of the Knowles School for Boys (Knowles Centre) at the junction of Henderson Highway and Knowles Avenue; see also Wilfred Knowles Bay; formerly Henderson Avenue |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Knudsen Street |
Probably named for carpenter Thorwald Knudsen who built houses on the street |
c1904 |
MHS |
Kushner Crescent |
Named for municipal official Chaim Nachman Kushner |
|
MHS |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Lachance Street |
Formerly Beliveau Street |
1963 |
14 |
Lagimodiere Boulevard |
Named for pioneer Jean Baptiste Lagimodière; see also Gaboury Place |
1971 |
Mosaic |
Laidlaw Boulevard |
Named for lawyer and municipal councillor Thomas Walter Laidlaw |
|
49 |
Laird Street |
Formerly Osborne Street |
1963 |
14 |
Lambert Street |
Named for physician Joseph Honore Octave Lambert |
|
Mosaic |
Lamont Boulevard |
Named for grain industry executive Cecil Alexander Ralph Lamont; formerly Hertford Boulevard |
|
MHS |
Lamontagne Road |
Formerly St. Joseph Road |
1963 |
14 |
Lanark Street |
Named for Lanark, the county town of Lanarkshire, Scotland; see also Renfrew Street |
1910 |
Harry Shave |
Rue Landry |
Named for Quebec judge Pierre Amand Landry (1846-1916) |
|
Mosaic |
Rue Langevin |
Named for cleric Louis Philippe Adelard Langevin |
|
MHS |
Langside Street |
Named for James A. Lang; formerly Ness Street |
1874 |
Harry Shave |
Lansdowne Avenue |
Named for Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, the Fifth Marquis of Lansdowne (1845-1927), who served as Governor General of Canada from 1883 to 1888. Other Winnipeg street commemorating Governors General include Aberdeen Avenue, Athlone Drive, Byng Place, Devonshire Drive, Dufferin Avenue, Grey Street, Leger Crescent, Lisgar Avenue, Lorne Avenue, Minto Street, Monck Avenue, Stanley Street, Tweedsmuir Road, Vanier Drive, and Vincent Massey Boulevard |
1903 |
Harry Shave |
Larche Avenue |
Named for Second World War Flight Sergeant Joseph Armand Larche (1918-1942) |
|
23 |
Rue Lariviere |
Named for politician Alphonse Alfred Clement LaRivière |
|
Mosaic |
Larsen Avenue |
Named for municipal official Walter Peter Larsen; formerly Montrose Avenue |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Lauder Avenue |
Named for a pioneering Bird’s Hill storekeeper who made bread using local flour, in the 1870s |
|
Mosaic |
Rue Laurier |
Named for Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier (1841-1919) |
|
Mosaic |
Laval Drive |
Named for Laval Drive; other Winnipeg streets commemorating academic institutions include Bishops Lane, Cambridge Street, Laval Drive, Macalester Bay, McGill Avenue, Mount Allison Bay, Oxford Street, Purdue Bay, Rutgers Bay, Ryerson Avenue, Selwyn Place, Yale Avenue, and others |
|
Mosaic |
Lavallee Avenue |
Named for community activist Louis Lavallee and other members of the Lavallee family |
|
26 |
Leacock Avenue |
Named for humorist and educator Stephen B. Leacock (1869-1944) |
|
Mosaic |
Lee Boulevard |
Named for Richard Lee, long-time resident of Fort Garry; formerly Lancashire Boulevard |
|
Mosaic |
Leger Crescent |
Named for Jules Léger (1913-1980), who served as Governor General of Canada from 1973 to 1978; other Winnipeg street commemorating Governors General include Aberdeen Avenue, Athlone Drive, Byng Place, Devonshire Drive, Dufferin Avenue, Grey Street, Lansdowne Avenue, Lisgar Avenue, Lorne Avenue, Minto Street, Monck Avenue, Stanley Street, Tweedsmuir Road, Vanier Drive, and Vincent Massey Boulevard |
|
MHS |
Leighton Avenue |
Named for Thomas Henry Leighton (1864-1924), an early market gardener in East Kildonan |
|
Mosaic, 38, 52 |
Leila Avenue |
Named for Leila Neil, neighbor to developer Robert N. Lower; see Lowery Bay |
|
Mosaic |
Lendrum Street |
Possibly named for lawyer and politician Lendrum McMeans; see Canora Street |
before 1908 |
MHS |
Lennox Street |
Named for boot and shoe merchant George Gilmour Lennox |
|
Mosaic |
Lenore Street |
Named for Lenore McMeans, daughter of lawyer and politician Lendrum McMeans; see McMeans Avenue |
|
Mosaic, 6 |
Leon Bell Drive |
Named for musician and pharmacist Leon Bell |
|
20 |
Leo Novak Street |
Renamed from Albany Street in March 1959 to commemorate a young medical technician who died rescuing two boys from the Assiniboine River on 23 March 1958 |
|
40 |
Lepine Avenue |
Named for Metis leader Ambroise Dydime Lepine; formerly Provencher Avenue |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Leslie Avenue |
Named for soldier, merchant and politician James Leslie (1786-1873) |
1907 |
Mosaic |
Levis Street |
Named for Francois Gaston Duc de Levis (1720-1787), who succeeded Marquis de Montcalm at Quebec, 1759 |
1881 |
Mosaic |
Lewis Street |
Named for American judge Abner Lewis; formerly Lark Street |
1882 (renamed 1893) |
4 |
Library Place |
Formerly Wallace Road |
1963 |
14 |
Lilac Street |
Formerly Lillie Street |
renamed 1898 |
Harry Shave |
Lily Street |
Believed by Vince Leah to be named for Lillie (Lily) Barber Sparrow (1870-1959), daughter of Edmund Lorenzo Barber |
|
48 |
Lindsay Street |
Named for the family name of the Earls of Crawford who were chiefs of the Scottish Lindsay clan |
1906 |
Harry Shave |
Linwood Street |
Named for William Linwood, early public works inspector in St. James |
|
Mosaic |
Lipton Street |
Named for British tea merchant Thomas Lipton (1850-1931) |
1903 |
Mosaic |
Lisgar Avenue |
Named for John Young, Baron of Lisgar (1807-1876), who was Governor-General of Canada from 1869 to 1872; other Winnipeg street commemorating Governors General include Aberdeen Avenue, Athlone Drive, Byng Place, Devonshire Drive, Dufferin Avenue, Grey Street, Lansdowne Avenue, Leger Crescent, Lorne Avenue, Minto Street, Monck Avenue, Stanley Street, Tweedsmuir Road, Vanier Drive, and Vincent Massey Boulevard |
before 1908 |
Mosaic |
Lismer Crescent |
Named for Canadian painter Arthur Lismer (1885-1969) |
|
Mosaic |
Lizzie Street |
Formerly Montefiore Street |
|
MHS |
Lock Street |
Formerly Louis Street |
|
MHS |
Lockston Avenue |
Renamed from Roblin Avenue in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Lockwood Street |
Formerly Fisher Street |
|
MHS |
Logan Avenue |
Named for Robert Logan. According to Mary Hislop, the street was named for Winnipeg Mayor Alexander Logan; see also Alexander Avenue |
1872 |
Harry Shave |
Lombard Avenue |
|
1898 |
MHS |
Lombardy Avenue |
Formerly Lorse Avenue |
1893 |
50 |
London Street |
Renamed from Wallace Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Lord Avenue |
Named for John Keast Lord (1818-1872), soldier and member of the Boundary Commission that mapped the border between Canada and the USA |
|
Mosaic |
Lorette Avenue |
Formerly Lorne Avenue |
|
MHS |
Lorne Avenue |
Named for John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, the Duke of Argyll, also known as the Marquis of Lorne, son-in-law to Queen Victoria, who served as Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883; see also Argyle Street, Louise Street and Princess Street; other Winnipeg street commemorating Governors General include Aberdeen Avenue, Athlone Drive, Byng Place, Devonshire Drive, Dufferin Avenue, Grey Street, Lansdowne Avenue, Leger Crescent, Lisgar Avenue, Minto Street, Monck Avenue, Stanley Street, Tweedsmuir Road, Vanier Drive, and Vincent Massey Boulevard |
1881 |
Harry Shave |
Loudoun Road |
Formerly University Street |
1960s |
MHS |
Rue Louis Riel |
Named for Louis Riel, whose actions led to the formation of Manitoba, in 1870 |
|
Mosaic |
Louise Street |
Named for Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria and wife to the Marquis of Lorne; see also Argyle Street, Lorne Avenue and Princess Street; renamed to Martha Street in March 1959 |
1874 |
Harry Shave |
Lowery Bay |
Named for Robert N. Lowery, an early 1900s developer in East Kildonan; see Leila Avenue |
|
Mosaic |
Lusted Street |
Named for carriage maker Thomas Lusted |
1876 |
Mosaic |
Luxton Avenue |
Named for William Fisher Luxton; formerly Athole Avenue |
1882 (renamed 1915) |
Harry Shave |
Lydia Street |
According to historian Harry Shave, named “after the daughter of a prominent citizen” |
1873 |
Harry Shave |
Lyle Street |
Formerly Berlin Street, the name was changed in the early days of the First World War due to anti-German sentiment of its residents |
1914 |
Mosaic |
Lynn Avenue |
Renamed to Coulter Avenue in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Lyon Street |
Named by land developer Geoffrey Hitzler Walton for his wife’s family, who had arrived in Manitoba in the early 1880s |
|
7 |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Macaulay Crescent |
Named for Angus Macaulay, Secretary-Treasurer of North Kildonan from 1945 to 1962 |
1967 |
Mosaic |
Macdonald Avenue |
There are two versions for this street name; J. B. Rudnyckyj claims it is named for Canadian prime minister John A. Macdonald (1815-1891) whereas historian Harry Shave says it commemorates cleric Robert Macdonald |
1873 |
Harry Shave, Mosaic |
Machray Avenue |
Named for cleric Robert Machray; formerly Charlotte Avenue |
1876 |
Harry Shave, 21 |
Macklin Avenue |
Named for early newspaperman Edward Hamilton Macklin; see also Dafoe Road, McCurdy Street, Payne Street and Richardson Avenue |
|
Vince Leah |
Mager Drive |
Named for Victor Mager, first Mayor of St. Vital |
|
Mosaic |
Magnus Avenue |
Named for farmer Magnus Brown |
1894 |
Harry Shave, Mosaic |
Manley Avenue |
Named for George H. Manley, chief accountant in the Winnipeg comptroller’s office; formerly Newall Avenue |
1966 |
Mosaic |
Maple Street |
Named for the maple trees growing along its course, planted there by the Logan and Fonseca families; formerly Maple Avenue |
1876, 1893 |
Harry Shave, Mosaic, 50 |
Marion Street |
Named for Roger Marion, reeve of St. Boniface in 1888, and 1889 to 1890 |
|
Mosaic |
Market Street |
The street that once ran past the Winnipeg market near City Hall; formerly Alexander Street |
1876 (renamed 1898) |
Mosaic, 21 |
Marshall Bay |
Named for University of Manitoba educator Edgar Kenny Marshall |
|
Mosaic |
Martha Street |
Named for Mary Logan; formerly Mary Street |
1893 |
Mosaic |
Martin Avenue |
Named for surveyor Alphonse Fortunat Martin |
before 1908 |
Mosaic |
Paul Martin Drive |
Named for municipal official Paul Emile Martin |
|
MHS |
Maryland Street |
Originally Boundary Street because it was the western boundary of Winnipeg; formerly Boundary Street |
1874 (renamed 1891) |
Harry Shave |
Mason Avenue |
Renamed to Jackson Avenue in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Mathers Avenue |
Named for judge Thomas Graham Mathers |
1898 |
Mosaic, MHS |
Matheson Avenue |
Named for cleric Alexander Matheson; formerly Armetta Avenue |
|
Mosaic |
Mawson Street |
Formerly Sinclair Street |
1963 |
14 |
May Street |
Formerly Margaret Street |
1876 |
21 |
Maybank Drive |
Named for politician Ralph Maybank |
|
MHS |
Mayfair Place |
Formerly Elswood Place, named for judge Albert Elswood Richards |
|
MHS |
McAdam Avenue |
Formerly Dunfra Avenue, McArthur Avenue |
|
MHS |
McArthur Street |
Named for banker Duncan McArthur |
1882 |
Mosaic |
McBeth Street |
Named for pioneer Alexander McBeth |
|
Mosaic |
McCalman Avenue |
Named for early school inspector H. D. McCalman |
1906 |
Mosaic |
McCreary Road |
Named for Winnipeg Mayor William Forsythe McCreary |
|
Mosaic |
McCurdy Street |
Named for pioneer newspaperman Wesley McCurdy; see also Dafoe Road, Macklin Avenue, Payne Street and Richardson Avenue |
|
Mosaic |
McDermot Avenue |
Named for businessman Andrew McDermot; formerly Owen Avenue |
1873 |
Harry Shave |
McDougall Street |
Named for lawyer William McDougall |
|
Mosaic |
McFarlane Street |
Formerly King Street |
1876 |
21 |
McGee Street |
Named for journalist and politician D’Arcy McGee (1825-1868); formerly Portland Street |
1893 |
Mosaic |
McGill Avenue |
Named for McGill University; other Winnipeg streets commemorating academic institutions include Bishops Lane, Cambridge Street, Laval Drive, Macalester Bay, Mount Allison Bay, Oxford Street, Purdue Bay, Rutgers Bay, Ryerson Avenue, Selwyn Place, Yale Avenue, and others |
|
Mosaic |
McGillivray Boulevard |
Named for provincial highway commissioner Archibald McGillivray; formerly Macdonald Road |
1965 |
MHS |
McGregor Street |
Named for Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor James Duncan McGregor |
1874 |
Mosaic |
McIntosh Avenue |
Named for market gardener Thomas McIntosh (1833-1913), on whose property the street was laid |
1904 |
Mosaic |
McIvor Avenue |
Named for James McIvor, one of the first school teachers in Kildonan |
|
Mosaic |
McKay Avenue |
There are two alternate explanations of the name; according to J. B. Rudnyckyj, the street commemorates Angus McKay, who arrived at the Red River Settlement in 1813; another possibility is that it recognizes early politician Angus McKay |
|
Mosaic |
McKelvey Street |
Named for Howard McKelvey (1909-?), alderman for Winnipeg ward 2 from 1947 to 1958; renamed from Thompson Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
Mosaic, 40 |
McKenzie Street |
Named for lawyer Frederick McKenzie; renamed from Hunter Street in 1894 |
1881 (renamed 1894) |
Mosaic |
McLean Street |
Named for Daniel McLean |
1882 |
Mosaic |
McLeod Avenue |
Named for pioneer Donald McLeod, whose original cabin site was at the intersection of McLeod and Henderson Highway |
|
Mosaic |
McMeans Avenue |
Named for lawyer and politician Lendrum McMeans; see also Lenore Street and Lendrum Street |
|
Mosaic |
McMicken Street |
Named for Winnipeg Mayor Alexander McMicken |
1876 |
Harry Shave |
McMillan Avenue |
Named for Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor Daniel Hunter McMillan |
before 1908 |
Mosaic |
McNaughton Avenue |
Named for Canadian Lieutenant General A. G. L. McNaughton (1887-?); see also Montgomery Avenue and Wavell Avenue |
1942 |
Mosaic |
McNichol Street |
Named for Andrew Robert McNichol |
1912 |
Mosaic |
McNulty Crescent |
Named for physician Patrick Herman McNulty, who once had a home in the area |
|
MHS |
McPhail Street |
Mosaic suggests it was named for Alexander James McPhail, President of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool from 1924 to 1931; alternatively, it may commemorate local realtor Wildrick Kenneth McPhail |
1906 |
|
McPhillips Street |
Named for land surveyor George McPhillips; the street was formerly the two mile limit of the Selkirk Settlers’ lots, which started at the Red River and extended from it for four miles; the first two miles were reserved for buildings and residential pursuits; beyond the limit was pasture land |
1876 |
Harry Shave |
McQuaker Drive |
Named for W. M. McQuaker, owner of property west of the Odd Fellows Home, who resided on this street |
|
Mosaic |
McTavish Street |
Named for William McTavish (?-1870), governor of Rupert’s Land when it was transferred to Canada, 1870 |
1872 |
Mosaic |
McWilliam Avenue |
See Pacific Avenue |
1881 |
Mosaic |
Meade Street |
Named for Rollin Pierce Meade, editor of The Nor’Wester newspaper when Louis Riel siezed it, 1869 |
1876 |
Mosaic |
Memorial Boulevard |
The street that passes Winnipeg’s Cenotaph commemorating the dead of the First World War |
1926 |
MHS |
Rue Messier |
Named for Catholic cleric Father Messier (?-1880), who assisted Archibishop Tache in the funeral mass of Louis Riel |
|
Mosaic |
Mickle Avenue |
Named for lawyer Charles Julius Mickle |
|
Mosaic |
Middle Gate |
The street name commemorates the gates that were erected at its entrance; see also East Gate and West Gate; formerly Central Avenue |
1910 |
MHS |
Midland Street |
Named for the Midland Railway tracks which ran close to this street |
1911 |
Mosaic |
Midmar Avenue |
Named for a pioneer family of the Brooklands area |
|
Mosaic |
Midwinter Avenue |
Named for Charles Midwinter; formerly Vaudreuil Avenue |
|
MHS |
Mighton Avenue |
Named for early landowner Samuel Mighton |
1905 |
Mosaic |
Miller Road |
Named for James Andrew Miller |
|
Mosaic |
Milton Street |
Apparently named for William Milton, proprietor of Milton’s Bakery in the 1920s |
1881 |
Mosaic |
Minto Street |
Named for Governor-General of Canada Gilbert John Elliott Murray, Fourth Earl of Minto (1845-1914); other Winnipeg street commemorating Governors General include Aberdeen Avenue, Athlone Drive, Byng Place, Devonshire Drive, Dufferin Avenue, Grey Street, Lansdowne Avenue, Leger Crescent, Lisgar Avenue, Lorne Avenue, Monck Avenue, Stanley Street, Tweedsmuir Road, Vanier Drive, and Vincent Massey Boulevard; formerly John Street (1878-1883), Thomas Street (1883-1904) |
1904 |
Mosaic |
Moir Avenue |
Named for educator James Hilton Moir, who in the 1930s was Principal of East Kildonan Collegiate (now Lord Wolseley School) |
|
Mosaic |
Mollard Road |
Named for Mrs. Alfred Mollard, who at 93 years of age was the oldest resident when the street was named for her |
1964 |
Free Press, 26 December 1964. |
Molson Street |
Originally Elmwood Street, renamed in March 1959 for F. W. Molson (1860-1929), early director of the Canadian Pacific Railway |
1959 |
Mosaic, 40 |
Monck Avenue |
Named for Charles Stanley Monck, Fourth Viscount Monck (1819-1894), who was Governor-General of Canada from 1867 to 1868; other Winnipeg street commemorating Governors General include Aberdeen Avenue, Athlone Drive, Byng Place, Devonshire Drive, Dufferin Avenue, Grey Street, Lansdowne Avenue, Leger Crescent, Lisgar Avenue, Lorne Avenue, Minto Street, Stanley Street, Tweedsmuir Road, Vanier Drive, and Vincent Massey Boulevard |
|
MHS |
Moncton Avenue |
Named for General Robert Moncton, who served with General James Wolfe, and died on the Plains of Abraham, 1759; see also Montcalm Crescent |
|
Mosaic |
Montcalm Street |
Renamed to Archibald Street in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Montcalm Crescent |
Named for General Louis Joseph de Montcalm (1712-1759), who defended Quebec against the English, dying on the Plains of Abraham, 1759; see also Moncton Avenue |
|
Mosaic |
Montgomery Avenue |
Named for British military commander Bernard Law Montgomery, First Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-?) |
1948 |
Mosaic |
Montrose Street |
Named for David Lindsay, Duke of Montrose, Fifth Earl of Crawford (1440-1495) |
1906 |
Mosaic |
Moore Avenue |
Named for Canadian labour leader Thomas Moore (1878-1946) |
1944 |
Mosaic |
Morier Avenue |
Named for Oscar Morier, an early 20th century resident of St. Vital |
|
Mosaic |
Morley Avenue |
Named for Arthur Willans Morley; formerly Gladstone Street |
1893 |
Mosaic, 50 |
Moroz Street |
Named for brothers who were casualities in the Second World War: Flying Officer Hrykory “Harry” Moroz (1917-1944) and Trooper Michael ”Mike” Moroz (1916-1942) |
|
23, MHS |
Morrison Street |
Named for municipal official Robert Farthing Morrison |
|
MHS |
Mountain Avenue |
Honours the first Anglican Bishop to visit Western Canada, George Jehoshaphat Mountain (1789-1863), in 1844 |
|
Harry Shave, Manitoba Pageant, The Cradle of Winnipeg History, Volume 3, Number 1, September 1957 |
Mount Allison Bay |
Named for Mount Allison University; other Winnipeg streets commemorating academic institutions include Bishops Lane, Cambridge Street, Laval Drive, Macalester Bay, McGill Avenue, Oxford Street, Purdue Bay, Rutgers Bay, Ryerson Avenue, Selwyn Place, Yale Avenue, and others |
|
Mosaic |
Mount Royal Road |
Named for a property near this street owned by Donald Alexander Smith (Lord Strathcona) |
|
Mosaic |
Mowat Road |
Named for fur trader Edward Mowat |
1961 |
Mosaic |
Muir Road |
Named for businessman Robert Muir |
1966 |
Mosaic |
Mulvey Avenue |
Named for Stewart Mulvey; formerly Mary Avenue |
1893 |
Harry Shave |
Municipal Road |
Street is located on land donated by Archibald Pritchard in the late 1800s |
|
Mosaic |
Munroe Avenue |
Named for George Fraser Munroe, long-time lawyer and secretary for the municipality of Kildonan |
|
Mosaic |
Murdock Road |
Named for Nova Scotia historian and politician Beamish Murdock (1800-1876); formerly Lorette Road |
1959 |
Mosaic |
Murray Avenue |
Named for Donald Murray, who arrived with Selkirk settlers in 1815; renamed to Dyson Avenue in March 1959 |
1892 |
Mosaic |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Nairn Avenue |
Named for Stephen Nairn; formerly Lemoine Avenue |
1906 |
MHS |
Nathaniel Street |
Formerly Boyd Street |
|
MHS |
Nanton Boulevard |
Named for banker Augustus Meredith Nanton; formerly Pipe Boulevard |
|
MHS |
Nassau Street |
Formerly Llewellyn Street, Henry Street (1873) |
1908 |
MHS |
Navin Road |
Named (with a misspelling) for farmer Thomas Naven (1858-1947) |
|
MHS, 43 |
Navy Way |
This is a former block of Smith Street north from Assiniboine Avenue to Broadway, commemorating HMCS Chippawa along its length |
1985 |
24 |
Neil Place |
The street runs through land brought in 1841 by Neil Campbell from the Hudson’s Bay Company |
|
Mosaic, MHS |
Nemy Crescent |
Named for lawyer Morton H. Nemy (1925-?) |
|
Mosaic |
Nesbitt Bay |
Named for financier Arthur James Nesbitt (1875-?) |
|
Mosaic |
Ness Avenue |
Named for the Ness family, likely Frank Ness, an early settler in this area of Winnipeg; family members Garnett Valentine Ness (?-1915) and V. W. Ness were veterans in the First World War |
1898 |
Mosaic, MHS |
Netley Avenue |
Formerly Selkirk Avenue |
1893 |
50 |
Newman Avenue |
Named for English cleric John Henry Newman (1801-1890) |
|
Mosaic |
Newton Avenue |
Rudnyckyj suggested the street was named for businessman Charles Henry Newton but Vince Leah, in his history of West Kildonan, indicated it was named for Josiah Newton, who in the early 1920s lived at the corner of Main Street and Newton; formerly Plessis Street |
1881 (renamed 1906) |
Mosaic |
Niagara Street |
Commemorates the 1812 battle of Queenston Heights, fought by General Isaac Brock, near Niagara Falls, Ontario; see also Brock Street and Queenston Street |
1906 |
Mosaic |
Nicklin Street |
Named for Winnipeg Blue Bomber football player Jeff Albert Nicklin (1914-1940), who was killed in action during the Second World War |
1959 |
Mosaic, MHS |
Nicollet Avenue |
Named for explorer Jean Nicolet (1598-1642) |
|
Mosaic |
Nightingale Road |
Alleged to be named for Donald A. Nightingale, councillor in East Kildonan from 1962 to 1963, and 1969 to 1970 |
|
Mosaic |
Niverville Avenue |
Named for explorer Joseph Claude Boucher, Chevalier de Niverville (1715-1804) |
|
Mosaic |
Nixon Street |
Named for Winnipeg alderman Thomas Nixon |
|
MHS |
Norquay Street |
Named for Manitoba Premier John Norquay |
before 1908 |
MHS |
Norris Road |
Named for Manitoba Premier Tobias Crawford Norris |
1971 |
Mosaic |
Notre Dame Avenue |
Named for a Roman Catholic girls’ school which once occupied a site on the street until it moved to a new location on Academy Road |
1891 |
Harry Shave |
Notre Dame Avenue East |
Renamed to Pioneer Avenue in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Nye Avenue |
Named for the Nye family that settled in the Middlechurch area; formerly Marjorie Street |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Oak Street |
Formerly Oak Avenue |
1893 |
50 |
Oakwood Avenue |
Formerly Parkview Avenue |
|
MHS |
Oakwood Place |
Renamed to Riverview Place in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Oberlin Road |
Named for Oberlin College. Other Winnipeg streets commemorating academic institutions include Bishops Lane, Cambridge Street, Laval Drive, Macalester Bay, McGill Avenue, Oxford Street, Purdue Bay, Rutgers Bay, Ryerson Avenue, Selwyn Place, Yale Avenue, and others |
|
Mosaic |
Oddy Street |
Named for Crispin Oddy, Mayor of Brooklands when it was a rural municipality; formerly Don Street |
1959 |
Mosaic |
Oliver Avenue |
Formerly Boyle Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Olivia Street |
According to historian Harry Shave, named “after the daughter of a prominent citizen” |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
O’Meara Street |
Named for cleric James Dallas O’Meara |
|
Harry Shave |
Ormiston Road |
Named for William Ormiston, alderman in St. Boniface from 1947 to 1952 |
|
Mosaic |
Osborne Street |
Named for soldier William Osborne Smith; formerly Pembina Street |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Oxford Street |
Named for Oxford University; other Winnipeg streets commemorating academic institutions include Bishops Lane, Cambridge Street, Laval Drive, Macalester Bay, McGill Avenue, Purdue Bay, Rutgers Bay, Ryerson Avenue, Selwyn Place, Yale Avenue, and others; formerly Oxford Avenue |
1882, 1893 |
Mosaic, 50 |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Pacific Avenue |
The street was originally named McWilliam Avenue for a person who represented a Toronto firm, purchasing a land parcel extending from the north side of the Ross estate; the name was changed due to confusion with nearby William Avenue; present name probably commemorates the nearby switching yards of the Canadian Pacific Railway |
1881 (renamed 1892) |
Mosaic, MHS |
Palk Road |
Named for Lawrence Palk, former comptroller of the Winnipeg Electric Company; renamed from Park Road in March 1959 |
1959 |
Mosaic, 40 |
Palliser Avenue |
Named for explorer John Palliser |
|
Mosaic |
Palmer Street |
Named for politician George Hastings Palmer |
|
Mosaic |
Palmerston Avenue |
Named for Henry John Temple, Third Viscount of Palmerston (1784-1865), British Prime Minister from 1855 to 1858, and 1859 to 1865; formerly Ida Avenue |
1915 |
Mosaic |
Pandora Avenue |
Formerly Nairn Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Panet Road |
Named for Quebec cleric Bernard C. Panet (1753-1833) |
1909 |
Mosaic |
Parent Street |
Named for politician Jacques Parent |
1882 |
Mosaic |
Park Road |
Renamed to Palk Road in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Park Street |
Renamed to Bridge Street in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Park Lane Avenue |
Formerly Vopni Avenue |
1982 |
MHS |
Parker Avenue |
Named for journalist Elizabeth Fulton Parker, who assisted in founding of the YWCA in Winnipeg, the Women’s Canadian Club, and the Alpine Club of Canada |
1882 |
Mosaic |
Parkin Avenue |
Named for municipal official Arnold Parkin. |
|
MHS |
Parnell Avenue |
Named for Winnipeg Mayor Edward Parnell; renamed from Raymond Avenue in March 1959 |
1959 |
Mosaic, 40 |
Parr Street |
Formerly Comloden Street |
|
MHS |
Partridge Avenue |
Named for market gardener Edmund Partridge |
|
Harry Shave |
Paterson Street |
Named for Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor James Colebrooke Patterson |
|
Mosaic |
Patrick Street |
Possibly named for cattle dealer and meat packer Patrick Burns (1856-1937); see also Burns Road; formerly Annie Street |
1876 |
Mosaic, 21 |
Paulley Drive |
Named for politician Andrew Russell Paulley |
|
Mosaic |
Payne Street |
Named for Walter Frederick Payne, member of the East Kildonan school board, 1925 to 1925 and journalist at the Winnipeg Free Press. See also Dafoe Road, Macklin Avenue, McCurdy Street and Richardson Avenue |
|
Mosaic, Leah |
Peake Avenue |
Named for 1960s provincial health inspector Dr. Henry Peake; formerly Maple Avenue |
1959 |
Mosaic |
Pearl Street |
According to historian Harry Shave, named “after the daughter of a prominent citizen”; formerly Penelope Street |
|
Harry Shave |
Peary Crescent |
Named for American explorer Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920) |
|
Mosaic |
Peguis Drive |
Named for Saulteaux chief Peguis |
|
MHS |
Pelly Avenue |
Renamed from Glendale Avenue in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Peltier Avenue |
Formerly Sargent Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Pembina Highway |
Named for Fort Pembina established in North Dakota (then unorganized territory of the United States) in 1801; a trail from Winnipeg leading to the fort became this street |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Pennefather Bay |
Named for physician John Pyne Pennefather; formerly James Street |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Penrose Place |
Named for pioneer photographer James Penrose |
|
Mosaic |
Pentland Street |
Named for pioneer Thomas Harry Pentland |
|
Mosaic |
Philip Lee Drive |
Named for Lieutenant Governor Philip S. Lee |
|
MHS |
Picardy Place |
Named for Picardy Confectionary Shop which had headquarters in this area; renamed from St. James Place in March 1959 |
1959 |
Mosaic, 40 |
Pike Crescent |
Named for G. J. Pike, school trustee (1928-31) and councillor (1932-34) in East Kildonan |
|
Mosaic |
Pilgrim Avenue |
Named for Ernest Pilgrim (1886-?), early Winnipeg interior decorator, circa 1906 |
|
Mosaic |
Pioneer Avenue |
Commemorates early Winnipeg pioneers who arrived by boats that docked at the foot of nearby Water Avenue; renamed from Notre Dame Avenue East in March 1959 |
1959 |
MHS |
Playter Street |
Formerly Hamilton Street |
1963 |
14 |
Plessis Road |
Named for cleric Joseph Octave Plessis (1763-1825) |
before 1908 |
Mosaic |
Plinguet Street |
Unknown |
|
MHS |
Point Douglas Avenue |
Named for an area of Winnipeg which, in turn, was named for Thomas Douglas, Fifth Earl of Selkirk, who brought settlers to the Red River area in 1812; see also Douglas Avenue and Selkirk Avenue |
|
MHS |
Polson Avenue |
Named for farmer Hugh Polson |
1882 |
Harry Shave |
Poole Crescent |
Formerly Shelley Crescent; named for surveyor John Poole, who immigrated from England in 1911 |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Poplarwood Avenue |
Named for poplar trees that are abundant in the area; formerly Hack Avenue |
1924 |
25 |
Portage Avenue |
Named because it was the road to the town of Portage la Prairie, west of Winnipeg |
|
MHS |
Powell Street |
Named for Lord Baden Powell (1857-1941), founder of the Boy Scout movement |
1882 |
Mosaic |
Prevette Street |
Named for Cyril Prevette, East Kildonan school trustee from 1949 to 1950 |
|
Mosaic |
Prince Street |
Named for aboriginal guide William Prince (?-1918) |
1874 |
Mosaic |
Prince Edward Street |
Formerly Edward Street |
|
MHS |
Prince Rupert Avenue |
Named for Prince Rupert, the first governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company; see also Rupert Avenue and Rupertsland Avenue |
|
Mosaic |
Princess Street |
Named for Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria and wife to the Marquis of Lorne; see also Argyle Street, Lorne Avenue and Louise Street |
1881 |
Harry Shave |
Principal Bay |
Named for principals of the nearby Knowles Centre |
|
MHS |
Pritchard Avenue |
Named for early settler John Pritchard |
1875 |
Harry Shave |
Prosper Street |
Named for Belgian immigrant Prosper Gevaert (1877-1957), who helped to organize the Club Belge; was a St. Boniface alderman (1922-1925) |
|
Mosaic |
Provencher Boulevard |
Named for cleric Joseph Norbert Provencher |
before 1908 |
Mosaic |
Pulford Street |
Named for Winnipeg alderman Alfred Henry Pulford, renamed from Royal Street in March 1959 |
1881 (renamed 1959) |
Harry Shave, 40 |
Purdue Bay |
Named for Purdue University; other Winnipeg streets commemorating academic institutions include Bishops Lane, Cambridge Street, Laval Drive, Macalester Bay, McGill Avenue, Rutgers Bay, Ryerson Avenue, Selwyn Place, Yale Avenue, and others |
|
Mosaic |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Qu’Appelle Avenue |
Named for the Hudson’s Bay Company trading post Fort Qu’Appelle, located in what is now eastern Saskatchewan; see also Carlton, Edmonton, Ellice, Fort, Garry, York |
before 1908 |
MHS |
Queen Street |
It was alleged by Mosaic to be named for Winnipeg Mayor John Queen but the name existed before Queen came to prominence |
before 1912 |
MHS |
Queenston Street |
Commemorates the 1812 battle of Queenston Heights, fought by General Isaac Brock, near Niagara Falls, Ontario; see also Brock Street and Niagara Street |
1906 |
Mosaic |
Quiring Bay |
Named for developer Frank Quiring (1925-2006); see also Karen Street and Elaine Place |
|
Mosaic |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Rachel Street |
Rachel Street was established from Point Douglas Avenue [now the CPR tracks] going north; it was combined with Annabella in 1908 but the Annabella name was restored in 1913 |
1873 |
28 |
Radford Street |
Formerly Ball Street, Bromhead Street, Madeline Street |
|
MHS |
Raleigh Street |
Named for dentist John Patrick Raleigh, who owned river lots near the start of this street in the early 1900s |
1906 |
Mosaic |
Ralph Campbell Road |
Named for D. Ralph Campbell, who served as President of the University of Manitoba from 1976 to 1981 |
|
MHS |
Raquette Street |
Formerly River Street |
1963 |
14 |
Ravelston Avenue |
Formerly Westgate Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Raymond Avenue |
Renamed to Parnell Avenue in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Redfern Road |
Named for Henry Fredrik Redfern, who lived in the area and was a school board member in the early 1900s |
|
Mosaic |
Redwood Avenue |
Mary Hislop said it was named for Alfred Boyd who, “in the early days he had a store on the Red river bank which the Indians named Redwood on account of the color it was painted”; Harry Shave clarified that the log store building had a red roof which gave the name |
|
Harry Shave, Manitoba Pageant, The Cradle of Winnipeg History, Volume 3, Number 1, September 1957 |
Regent Avenue |
Formerly Nairn Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Reichert Street |
Named for Antony Reichert, an early settler in the North Kildonan area of Winnipeg |
|
Mosaic |
Renfrew Street |
Named for Renfrew, the county town of Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland; see also Lanark Street |
1907 |
Harry Shave |
Renwick Avenue |
Formerly Sunnyside Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Reynolds Bay |
According to J. B. Rudnyckyj, said to be named for "an early settler" |
|
Mosaic |
Rice Road |
Named for Rice University; other Winnipeg streets commemorating academic institutions include Bishops Lane, Cambridge Street, Laval Drive, Macalester Bay, McGill Avenue, Rutgers Bay, Ryerson Avenue, Selwyn Place, Yale Avenue, and others |
|
MHS |
Richardson Avenue |
Named for newspaperman Robert Lorne Richardson; see also Dafoe Road, Macklin Avenue, McCurdy Street and Payne Street |
|
Mosaic |
Riddle Avenue |
Formerly Classic Avenue |
|
MHS |
Riel Avenue |
Named for Louis Riel, whose efforts in 1870 culminated in the formation of the province of Manitoba |
|
MHS |
Riley Crescent |
Name for Fort Garry municipal official John Herbert Riley |
|
10 |
Risbey Crescent |
Named for Thomas E. Risbey, an early settler in this area of Winnipeg |
|
Mosaic |
Ritchie Street |
Named for David Ritchie, Winnipeg alderman for Ward 5 (1902-1903) |
1966 |
Mosaic |
Rue Ritchot |
Named for cleric Joseph-Noel Ritchot |
|
Mosaic |
River Avenue |
Formerly Water Avenue |
1876 |
21 |
Riverton Avenue |
Formerly Gurney Avenue, Jasper Avenue, Georgina Avenue |
|
MHS |
Riverview Place |
Renamed from Oakwood Place in March 1959 |
1959 |
40 |
Dr. Jose Rizal Way |
Renamed for Filipino independence icon Dr. Jose P. Rizal (1861-1896); formerly Kenaston Street (north from Santa Fe Drive) |
2007 |
30 |
Rizzuto Bay |
Named for Transcona councillor Phil Rizzuto |
|
MHS |
Robert Avenue |
Renamed to Galt Avenue in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Robertson Street |
Named for cleric James Robertson |
1882 |
Mosaic |
Robinson Street |
Named for merchant Thomas D. Robinson |
before 1908 |
Mosaic |
Roblin Avenue |
Renamed to Lockston Avenue in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Roblin Boulevard |
Named for Manitoba Premier Rodmond Palen Roblin |
|
MHS |
Robson Street |
Named for Second World War Wishart Robson; formerly Queen Street |
before 1908 |
Mosaic, 23 |
Roch Street |
According to historian Harry Shave, it commemorates E. Roch, who purchased four acres of property in its vicinity, in 1894; an alternative in Mosaic says it is named for William G. P. Roch, an East Kildonan landowner who lived in Saskatchewan |
1904 |
Harry Shave |
Rockman Street |
Formerly Rockwood Street, Rockwood Place |
1963 |
14 |
Rockwood Street |
Named for a village 8 miles northeast of Guelph, Ontario, birthplace of railway tycoon James Jerome Hill, and once known for its famous Rockwood Academy |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Roman Street |
Formerly Clair Street |
1963 |
14 |
Roosevelt Place |
Named for American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
|
Mosaic |
Rorie Street |
Named for Rorie Bannatyne, presumably a relative of early pioneer Andrew Graham Ballenden Bannatyne |
1874 |
Mosaic |
Rose Avenue |
First named Ross Avenue (October 1881) then renamed Rosser in commemoration of CPR engineer Thomas L. Rosser (February 1903) then subsequently to Rose, to avoid confusion with streets of same name |
|
Harry Shave |
Rosewarne Avenue |
Named for William Rosewarne, a contractor in the St. Vital area of Winnipeg in the early 1900s |
|
Mosaic |
Roslyn Road |
Formerly Garnet Road |
1873 |
MHS |
Ross Avenue |
Named for Hudson’s Bay Company employee and historian Alexander Ross (1783-1856) and his family. See also William Avenue |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Rosser Avenue |
Named for Thomas L. Rosser (1836-1910), Chief Engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway; later renamed Warsaw Avenue |
|
MHS |
Rossmere Crescent |
Named for Rossmere, the residence of early pioneers Malcolm and Roderick Ross |
|
Mosaic |
Rouge Road |
Formerly Ferry Road |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Roux Avenue |
Changed to Sherwood Place |
1940 |
47 |
Rover Avenue |
Formerly Minnie Street, Regent Avenue |
1881 |
MHS |
Rowand Avenue |
Named for John Rowand, who built the estate of Donald Alexander Smith (Lord Strathcona) in west Winnipeg |
|
Mosaic |
Royal Street |
Renamed to Pulford Street in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Ruby Street |
Named for Ruby Henderson, daughter of real estate developer James Belfry Henderson |
|
6 |
Rupert Avenue |
Named for Prince Rupert, first governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company; see also Prince Rupert Avenue and Rupertsland Avenue; formerly R Street |
1872 (renamed 1898) |
Mosaic |
Rupertsland Avenue |
Named for the area given in 1670 to the Hudson’s Bay Company |
|
Mosaic |
Rutherford Street |
Formerly Buchanan Street, it was renamed in 1959 for pioneering lumberman Thomas Rutherford |
1959 |
40, MHS |
Ryan Street |
Named for Winnipeg mayor Thomas Ryan (1849-?) |
|
Mosaic |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
St. Cross Street |
Named for an early girls’ school in the area; formerly Mac Street |
|
Harry Shave |
St. James Place |
Renamed to Picardy Place in March 1959 |
|
40 |
St. James Street |
Formerly St. James Avenue |
1893 |
50 |
St. John’s Avenue |
Named for nearby St. John’s Cathedral, which was named in 1853 by Bishop David Anderson |
1881 |
Harry Shave |
St. Mary Avenue |
Named for St. Mary’s Church established in 1869 in a cottage owned by William Drever, later purchased by the Roman Catholic church under Archbishop Tache. In 1873, the Hudson’s Bay Company gave land to the church to construct a more permanent structure, completed in 1875 |
1881 |
Harry Shave |
St. Matthews Avenue |
Commemorates St. Matthew’s Anglican Church at the corner of this street and Maryland Street; formerly Livinia Street, Livinia Avenue |
1881 (renamed 1893, 1913) |
2, 50 |
St. Vital Road |
J. B. Rudnyckyj suggested it was named for cleric Vital Justin Grandin; see also Grandin Street and Bishop Grandin Boulevard |
|
Mosaic |
Salter Street |
Named for Mrs. George B. Salter of Port Hope, Ontario, an aunt of lumberman Theodore Arthur Burrows |
before 1908 |
Prominent, Winnipeg Free Press 27 January 1973 |
Sanderson Avenue |
Named for John Sutherland Sanderson, first person to file for a farm in Manitoba, on 1 July 1872 |
1906 |
Mosaic |
Sanford Street |
Named for politician H. E. Sanford, member of the Canadian Senate from 1887 to 1899, director of the Portage and Westbourne Railway, now part of the Canadian Pacific Railway; formerly Windsor Street |
1913 |
Mosaic |
Sanford Fleming Road |
Named for Sandford Fleming (1827-1915). Note that, for reasons known, the name is misspelled on the street name |
|
MHS |
Sansome Avenue |
Named for municipal official Joseph Henry Sansome; formerly Tache Avenue |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Saul Miller Drive |
Named for politician Saul Alecs Miller |
|
MHS |
Saunderson Street |
Named for Hugh Hamilton Saunderson, who served as President of the University of Manitoba from 1954 to 1970 |
|
MHS |
Schultz Street |
Named for Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor John Christian Schultz |
1872 |
Mosaic |
Scotia Street |
Named by Lord Selkirk settlers (1812) in memory of their Scottish homeland; formerly Scott Street |
1893 |
Mosaic |
Scotland Avenue |
Formerly Scott Avenue |
|
MHS |
Scott Street |
Named for soldier Thomas Scott, protagonist of Louis Riel; formerly Joseph Street |
1875 (renamed 1913) |
Mosaic |
Seel Avenue |
Named for municipal official Donald Seel |
? |
MHS |
Seier Bay |
Named for Gerhard W. Seier, owner of property and surroundings |
1959 |
Mosaic |
Selkirk Avenue |
Named for Thomas Douglas, Fifth Earl of Selkirk; see also Douglas Avenue and Point Douglas Avenue |
1883 |
Harry Shave |
Selwyn Place |
Named for Selwyn College at Cambridge University; other Winnipeg streets commemorating academic institutions include Bishops Lane, Cambridge Street, Laval Drive, Macalester Bay, McGill Avenue, Rutgers Bay, Ryerson Avenue, Yale Avenue, and others |
1903 |
Mosaic |
Semple Avenue |
Named for fur trader Robert Semple; see also Seven Oaks Avenue and Grant Avenue |
1903 |
Mosaic |
Semple Street |
Renamed to Cochrane Street in 1959 |
|
40 |
Setter Street |
Named for pioneer and fur trader Andrew Setter |
|
Mosaic |
Seven Oaks Avenue |
Named for the 1816 Seven Oaks Battle between colonists from Lord Selkirk’s settlement, led by Robert Semple, and Metis under Cuthbert James Grant; see also Grant Avenue and Semple Avenue; formerly Kenilworth Avenue |
|
Mosaic |
Shaftesbury Boulevard |
Named for Anthony Ashley Cooper (1801-1885), Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, who in 1842 introduced laws that freed women and children from working in coal mines. |
|
22 |
Shaughnessy Street |
Named for Thomas George, First Baron of Shaughnessy (1853-1923), a member of the group which built the Canadian Pacific Railway into Winnipeg in 1881, and President of the company from 1899 to 1918. See also Hill Street, Stephen Street and Van Horne Street |
1903 |
Mosaic |
Shelley Crescent |
Renamed to Poole Crescent in 1963 |
|
Mosaic, 14 |
Sheppard Street |
Named for soldier William Sheppard |
1882 |
Mosaic |
Sherbourne Street |
Formerly Sherbourne Avenue |
1893 |
50 |
Sherbrook Street |
Named originally for James Mulligan who operated a ferry across the Assiniboine River at about the place where the Misericordia Hospital is located today; renamed 14th Street South in 1891, back to Mulligan in 1893, and to Sherbrook in 1897; formerly Mulligan Street, Nena Street, Quelch Street |
1874 |
Harry Shave |
Sherman Street |
Named for banker and poet Francis Joseph Sherman (1871-1926) |
|
Mosaic |
Sherwood Place |
Formerly Roux Avenue, this street is believed to be named for Canadian soldier and diplomat Sherwood Lett (1895-1964) |
|
47 |
Shore Street |
Formerly Shore Avenue |
1893 |
50 |
Sidebottom Drive |
Named for real estate salesman Tom Sidebottom |
|
MHS |
Simonite Street |
Named for Winnipeg alderman Charles Edward Simonite, of the firm Argue & Simonite Company; formerly Beaumont Street |
1965 |
Mosaic |
Simpson Avenue |
Named for pioneer Robert Simpson, who established a market garden in East Kildonan |
|
Mosaic |
Sinclair Street |
Named for early land surveyor Duncan Sinclair; formerly Ewart Street |
1874 |
Harry Shave |
Slater Avenue |
Named for Harry Slater, early settler on property where the street is now located in North Kildonan |
|
Mosaic |
Sly Drive |
Named for dry goods merchant and postmaster Thomas Sly (1878-1963), who was a West Kildonan alderman in the 1930s |
|
Mosaic |
Smart Street |
Named for politician James Smart, a member of the Greenway government of 1881 |
1881 |
Mosaic |
Smith Street |
Named for Donald Alexander Smith, an official of the Hudson’s Bay Company |
1882 |
Mosaic |
Snow Street |
Named for grain commissioner Matthew Snow; formerly Thurso Street |
1959 |
Mosaic |
Softley Road |
Named for educator and municipal official Harry Lorne “King” Softley |
|
MHS |
Somerset Avenue |
Named for educator John Beaufort Somerset |
|
Mosaic |
Southall Drive |
Named for school board secretary-treasurer Barbara Southall and members of her family |
|
13 |
Sparling Avenue |
Formerly Roseberry Avenue |
|
MHS |
Spence Street |
Named for James Spence; formerly Carey Street |
1893 |
Harry Shave |
Sprague Street |
Named for Alice Wilhelmina Hawkins Sprague |
1919 |
Mosaic, MHS |
Sprite Street |
Formerly Smith Street |
1963 |
14 |
Spruce Street |
Formerly Hallet Street |
1882 (renamed 1893) |
MHS, 50 |
Stack Street |
Named for athlete Frank Stack |
|
MHS |
Stafford Street |
Named for Sir Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford (1301-1372); see also Wentworth Street |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Stalker Bay |
Named for William Stalker, a foreman of public works in North Kildonan in the early 1900s |
|
Mosaic |
Stanier Street |
Named for Charles E. Stanier (1870-1949), employee of the National Trust Company from 1905 to 1935 |
1906 |
Mosaic |
Stanley Street |
Named for Frederick Arthur, First Baron of Stanley of Preston (1841-1908), who served as Governor General of Canada from 1888 to 1893; in 1893, he donated the Stanley Cup for hockey; other Winnipeg street commemorating Governors General include Aberdeen Avenue, Athlone Drive, Byng Place, Devonshire Drive, Dufferin Avenue, Grey Street, Lansdowne Avenue, Leger Crescent, Lisgar Avenue, Lorne Avenue, Minto Street, Monck Avenue, Tweedsmuir Road, Vanier Drive, and Vincent Massey Boulevard; formerly Machray Street |
1893 |
Mosaic |
Star Street |
Formerly Paisley Street |
1963 |
14 |
Stardust Avenue |
Formerly Hartford Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Stephen Street |
Probably named for George Stephen (1829-1921), a member of the syndicate which built the Canadian Pacific Railway into Winnipeg in 1881. See also Hill Street, Shaughnessy Street and Van Horne Street |
1881 |
MHS |
Sterling Lyon Parkway |
Named for Manitoba politician Sterling Rufus Lyon |
|
MHS |
Stevenson Road |
Named for early commercial pilot Frederick Joseph Stevenson, for whom the Winnipeg International Airport was formerly named Stevenson Aerodrome |
|
Mosaic |
Stewart Street |
Named for James Stewart, an employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company; renamed Warnock Street in March 1959 |
|
Mosaic, 40 |
Stewart Street |
This street in the Assiniboia area was named for Alexander Mitchell Stewart, who owned four sections of land where the street is now located |
|
MHS |
Stiles Street |
Named for clothier Henry Brougham Stiles |
1905 |
Mosaic |
Stillwell Street |
Named for Henry Stillwell (1878-1960), who arrived in Winnipeg in 1910, forming the Stillwell Upholstering Company |
|
Mosaic |
Storie Road |
Named for Thomas Storie, an early settler in Old Kildonan who owned land in the early 1900s; formerly Churchill Road |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Stornoway Street |
Formerly Glen Avenue |
1963 |
14 |
Stovel Street |
Named for pioneering printers in the Stovel family, among whom was Gordon Stovel |
1959 |
Mosaic |
Stradbrook Avenue |
Named for Stradbrook Hall in Ireland, the family home of Annie Pim, wife of a Mr. Jones, the land owner who gave the street its name; formerly Maria Avenue, Spadina Avenue (part) |
1913 |
Mosaic |
Strathcona Street |
Named for businessman Donald Alexander Smith, also known as Lord Strathcona |
1904 |
Mosaic |
Strathmillan Road |
Named because it was midway between the estate of Lord Strathcona and property at Sturgeon Creek owned by a McMillan |
|
Mosaic |
Stuart Avenue |
Named for fur trader John Stuart (1779-1847) |
|
Mosaic |
Sturgeon Road |
Formerly Victoria Street |
1963 |
14 |
Sutherland Avenue |
Named for politician Alexander M. Sutherland; formerly Hill Avenue |
1872 |
Mosaic |
Swailes Avenue |
Named for politician Donovan Swailes; formerly Marion Avenue |
1963 |
14, 16 |
Symington Road |
Named for lawyer Herbert James Symington; formerly Selkirk Road |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Syndicate Street |
Probably named for the syndicate of businessmen who built the Canadian Pacific Railway, which arrived in Winnipeg in 1881 |
1881 |
MHS |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Tache Avenue |
Named for cleric Alexandre-Antonin Taché |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Taggart Street |
Named for James T. Taggart, a councillor in Transcona from the 1920s to 1940s; formerly Second Street |
1959 |
Mosaic |
Tait Avenue |
Named for William Auld Tait |
|
Mosaic |
Talbot Avenue |
Named for Alice Talbot, first principal of Talbot School, 1891; she became the wife of Archbishop Matheson; formerly Carter Street, Central Street, Elmwood Street, Regent Avenue, Renton Street, Taylor Street |
1906 |
Mosaic |
Tallman Street |
Named for the pioneering Tallman family of the Rosser area; formerly Laurence Street |
1906 (renamed 1966) |
Mosaic |
Tanner Street |
Named for the pioneering Tanner family of West Kildonan, of which Charles Tanner was Reeve from 1920 to 1923 |
|
Mosaic |
Taylor Avenue |
Named for Winnipeg Mayor Thomas William Taylor; formerly Frederic Avenue |
1898 (renamed March 1959) |
Harry Shave, 40 |
Tecumseh Street |
Named for aboriginal warrior Tecumseh (1768-1813) who fought on behalf of British forces during the War of 1812; formerly Silvia Street, Monkman Street |
1877 (renamed before 1908) |
Harry Shave |
Telfer Street |
Named for Reverend D. H. Telfer, pastor of St. James Methodist Church in the 1920s |
|
Mosaic |
Templeton Avenue |
Named for pioneer William Templeton, owner of land that is now the Kildonan Golf Course |
|
Mosaic |
Rue Thibault |
Named for priest Jean Baptiste Thibault |
before 1908 |
Mosaic |
Thom Avenue |
Named for recorder Adam Thom; formerly Thompson Avenue |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Thomas Avenue |
Named for fur trader and surgeon Thomas Thomas (1766-1828), who served the Hudson’s Bay Company at York Factory |
1957 |
Mosaic |
Thomas Street |
See Minto Street |
1883 |
MHS |
Thompson Drive |
Named for veterinarian Samuel Jacob Thompson |
|
Mosaic |
Thompson Street |
Renamed to McKelvey Street in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Timlick Street |
Formerly Telfer Street |
1963 |
14 |
Tod Drive |
Named for the family of Peter Tod, Scottish immigrants who settled in the St. Vital area, 1878, becoming prominent market gardeners |
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Mosaic |
Toshak Street |
Formerly McLean Street |
1963 |
14 |
Troy Avenue |
Formerly St. Johns Avenue |
|
MHS |
Turenne Street |
Named for municipal official Joseph Turenne; formerly Leslie Street |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Turnbull Drive |
Named for local farmer Thomas Turnbull |
|
MHS |
Turner Avenue |
Named for Philip Turner, the first full-time surveyor for the Hudson’s Bay Company |
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Mosaic |
Tuxedo Avenue |
Formerly Fourth Avenue, Van Horne Avenue, Pipe Boulevard |
|
MHS |
Tweedsmuir Road |
Named for John Buchan, First Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940), who served as Governor General of Canada from 1935 to 1940. Other Winnipeg street commemorating Governors General include Aberdeen Avenue, Athlone Drive, Byng Place, Devonshire Drive, Dufferin Avenue, Grey Street, Lansdowne Avenue, Leger Crescent, Lisgar Avenue, Lorne Avenue, Minto Street, Monck Avenue, Stanley Street, Vanier Drive, and Vincent Massey Boulevard |
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MHS |
Tylehurst Street |
Formerly Centre Street |
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MHS |
Tyndall Avenue |
Named for British scientist John Tyndall (1820-1893), who is also commemorated by a type of stone quarried in Manitoba (Tyndall stone) that is used widely in local buildings |
1962 |
Mosaic |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Union Avenue |
Crosses Brazier, Roch, and Watt Streets named for Albert Brazier, E. Roch, and James Watt, respectively, each of whom purchased 4 acres of land in the vicinity, in 1894 |
before 1908 |
Harry Shave |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Valde Avenue |
Named for Second World War Pilot Officer Victor Lewis Valde |
|
23 |
Valour Road |
Renamed to honor three residents of the street who won the Victoria Cross for bravery during the First World War: Robert Shankland, Leo Clarke, and Fred Hall; formerly Pine Street, Ross Street |
1925 (renamed 1945) |
Mosaic |
Vandal Street |
Formerly River Street |
1963 |
14 |
Van Horne Street |
Named for railwayman William Cornelius Van Horne; see also Hill Street, Shaughnessy Street, Stephen Street and Van Horne Street; formerly Van Horne Avenue |
1903 |
Mosaic |
Vanier Drive |
Named for Georges-Philéas Vanier (1888-1967), who served as Governor General of Canada from 1959 to 1967; other Winnipeg street commemorating Governors General include Aberdeen Avenue, Athlone Drive, Byng Place, Devonshire Drive, Dufferin Avenue, Grey Street, Lansdowne Avenue, Leger Crescent, Lisgar Avenue, Lorne Avenue, Minto Street, Monck Avenue, Stanley Street, Tweedsmuir Road, and Vincent Massey Boulevard |
|
MHS |
Vaughan Street |
Named for land surveyor Josephus Wyatt Vaughan |
1881 |
Harry Shave |
Victor Street |
Formerly Maple Street |
|
MHS |
Victoria Grove |
Formerly Centre Avenue (1912-c1961) |
|
|
Victoria Street |
Renamed to Westbrook Street in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Vincent Street |
Named for Anglican priest Thomas Vincent (1835-?). See also Vine Street |
1906 |
Mosaic |
Vincent Massey Boulevard |
Named for Charles Vincent Massey (1887-1967), who served as Governor General of Canada from 1952 to 1959. Other Winnipeg street commemorating Governors General include Aberdeen Avenue, Athlone Drive, Byng Place, Devonshire Drive, Dufferin Avenue, Grey Street, Lansdowne Avenue, Leger Crescent, Lisgar Avenue, Lorne Avenue, Minto Street, Monck Avenue, Stanley Street, Tweedsmuir Road, and Vanier Drive |
|
MHS |
Vine Street |
This street running north from Logan Avenue was renamed from Vincent Street sometime before 1914 |
|
MHS |
Vopni Avenue |
Named for Icelandic immigrant Jon Jonnson Vopni until 1982 when it was renamed Park Lane Avenue |
|
Mosaic |
Vulcan Avenue |
Named for the Vulcan Iron Works that purchased 27 acres of land in the vicinity in 1961 |
|
MHS |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Wagner Street |
Named for surveyor William Wagner |
1964 |
Mosaic |
Walden Crescent |
Formerly Rosedale Crescent |
1963 |
14 |
Walker Avenue |
Possibly named for theatre owner Corliss Powers Walker; formerly Merrion Avenue |
1883 |
Mosaic |
Wallace Street |
Renamed to London Street in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Walnut Street |
Formerly Walnut Avenue |
1893 |
50 |
Warde Road |
Named for soldier Leo Warde (1888-1971), who had a long record of service in Winnipeg |
|
Mosaic |
Wardlaw Avenue |
Named for judge Thomas Wardlaw Taylor; formerly Kennedy Avenue, Wardlow Avenue |
1893 (renamed 1906) |
Harry Shave |
Warnock Street |
Named for animal activist Sally Warnock, renamed from Stewart Street in 1959 |
1959 |
Vince Leah (Winnipeg Tribune 20 Feb 1959), 40 |
Warsaw Avenue |
Formerly named Ross Avenue for businessman Arthur Wellington Ross, changed to Rosser Avenue to avoid confusion with Ross Avenue; probably commemorating CPR engineer Thomas Lafayette Rosser, subsequently renamed to Warsaw |
1913 |
MHS |
Water Street |
Early street to Red River where boats docked; see also Pioneer Avenue; renamed William Stephenson Way in 2009; formerly Schultz Street |
1876 |
21 |
Waterloo Street |
Formerly Waterloo Avenue |
1893 |
50 |
Watt Street |
Named for James Watt, who purchased four acres of land in its vicinity, in 1894. An alternate version given by Mosaic is that it commemorates local landowner Walter L. Watt |
1904 |
Harry Shave |
Waugh Road |
Mosaic stated it was named for Winnipeg mayor Richard Deans Waugh but it actually commemorates his brother, East St. Paul municipal official William Waugh. |
|
36 |
Wavell Avenue |
Named for British military commander Archibald Percival, First Earl of Wavell (1883-1950). See also Montgomery Avenue and McNaughton Avenue |
1948 |
Mosaic |
Waverley Street |
Named for Waverley novels by Scottish author Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832); formerly Waverley Avenue |
1882 (renamed 1893) |
Mosaic, 50 |
Weatherdon Avenue |
Formerly Gladstone Avenue |
|
MHS |
Webb Place |
Named for Winnipeg Mayor Ralph Humphreys Webb; renamed from Isbister Place in March 1959 |
1959 |
Harry Shave, 40 |
Wellesley Avenue |
Formerly Wellington Avenue |
1893 |
50 |
Wellington Avenue |
Named for Winnipeg Mayor Alexander McMicken; formerly McMicken Street, Wellington Street |
1881 (renamed 1893) |
Mosaic, 50 |
Wellington Crescent |
Named for businessman Arthur Wellington Ross; formerly Crescent Road, Laurel Street, Wellington Street, Assiniboine Drive (March 1959) |
before 1908 (renamed March 1959) |
MHS, 40 |
Wentworth Street |
Named for Thomas Wentworth (1593-1641) who was given the title Earl of Stafford by Henry VIII; see also Stafford Street |
1882 |
Harry Shave |
Wenzel Street |
Named for Herman Wenzel (1868-1944), who worked as part of a supply depot during the 1885 Northwest Rebellion, later farmed at Springfield |
1965 |
Mosaic |
Westbrook Street |
Named for Winnipeg mayor Henry Shaver Wesbrook, renamed from Victoria Street in March 1959 |
1959 |
Mosaic, 40 |
West Gate |
The street name commemorates the gates that were erected at its entrance; see also East Gate and Middle Gate; formerly Assiniboine Avenue |
1910 |
MHS |
Westminster Avenue |
Formerly Buell Avenue |
1910 |
MHS |
Wharton Boulevard |
Named for educator Charles W. Wharton. |
|
Mosaic |
Whellams Lane |
Named for municipal official Herbert Creasey Whellams; formerly Ferry Lane |
1963 |
Mosaic, 14 |
Whicker Street |
Named for local municipal and school officials James William Whicker (1878-1949) and his son George Whicker (1911-2007) |
|
15 |
Whitehall Avenue |
Eliminated and replaced by Mostyn Place |
1955 |
54 |
Whiteway Road |
Named for teacher and MP Dean W. Whiteway |
c1978 |
11 |
Whyte Avenue |
Named for railwayman William Whyte |
|
Mosaic |
Widlake Street |
Named for Second World War Trooper Tom Huntington Widlake |
|
23 |
Wiginton Street |
Named for alderman Jack Lester Wiginton |
1967 |
Mosaic |
Wilfred Knowles Bay |
See Knowles Avenue |
|
MHS |
Wilkes Avenue |
Named for Charles R. Wilkes |
after 1910 |
Mosaic, MHS |
William Avenue |
Named for postmaster William Ross, son of Alexander Ross; see also Ross Avenue and McWilliam Avenue |
1893 |
Harry Shave |
William Dixon Bay |
Named for Knowles Centre Superintendent Rev. William Dixon |
|
MHS |
William Gibson Bay |
Named for community activist William Hector Gibson |
|
MHS |
William Newton Avenue |
Named for businessman and city councillor William Newton. |
|
37 |
William Stephenson Way |
Named for war hero William Stephenson; formerly Water Avenue |
Renamed November 2009 |
5 |
Willow Avenue |
Formerly College Place |
1908 (renamed 1913) |
Harry Shave |
Wilmot Place |
Named for New Brunswick Lieutenant-Governor (1868-1873) Lemuel Allan Wilmot, whose family later moved to Winnipeg; formerly Betourney |
1901 |
Mosaic |
Wilson Street |
Named for Winnipeg Mayor Horace Wilson |
|
Harry Shave |
Wilton Street |
Named for an English town dating to 8th century |
|
Harry Shave |
Winslow Drive |
Named for municipal official Arthur Alvin Winslow |
|
17 |
Winston Road |
Formerly Sutherland Street |
|
MHS |
Wolfe Street |
Renamed to Gateway Road in March 1959 |
|
40 |
Wolseley Avenue |
Name for soldier Garnet Joseph Wolseley; formerly Bath Street, Ethel Street, Ida Street, Keller Street |
1905 |
MHS |
Wood Street |
Named for judge Edmund Burke Wood |
1874 (named in June 1884) |
4 |
Woodlands Crescent |
Formerly Woodlands Boulevard, Victoria Boulevard |
1963 |
14 |
Woodward Avenue |
Named for Charles Woodward (1852-1937), founder of the Woodward department stores of western Canada, and cattle dealer in Manitoba, 1882 |
1882 |
Mosaic |
Wright Street |
Named for founding Winnipeg School Board member Archibald Francis Wright |
|
Mosaic |
Street name |
Notes |
Year created |
Source(s) |
Yale Avenue |
Named for Yale University; other Winnipeg streets commemorating academic institutions include Bishops Lane, Cambridge Street, Harvard Avenue, Laval Drive, Macalester Bay, McGill Avenue, Mount Allison Bay, Oxford Street, Purdue Bay, Rutgers Bay, Ryerson Avenue, Selwyn Place, Yale Avenue, and others |
|
MHS |
York Avenue |
Named for the Hudson’s Bay Company trading post York Factory on Hudson Bay; a portion of the avenue was formerly called University Place because it was near the University of Manitoba’s Science Building that once stood where Memorial Park is now situated. See also Carlton, Edmonton, Ellice, Fort, Garry, Qu’Appelle |
1881 |
Harry Shave |
Young Street |
Named for cleric George Young |
1893 |
Harry Shave |
Youville Street |
Named for Sister L’Esperance Youville of Charity Grey Nuns, first teacher in a school established by Archbishop Tache |
before 1908 |
Mosaic |
Yukon Avenue |
Renamed from Alberta Avenue in March 1959 |
|
40 |