Christchurch street names T - V - Christchurch City Libraries

Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Vagues
Road
Vale
Terrace
Former
name
Vague’s
Road
Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further
information
Named after
Edmund Vague
(1848-1923).
Named after
Noel Lancelot St
Elmo Vale
(1898-1981).
Northcote Vague lived in Papanui for a
time and for many years was
choirmaster at the Methodist
Church there.
First mentioned in the Star in
1877 in a report of a meeting
of the Avon Road Board.
First appears in street
directories in 1894.
Wigram Vale was a motor engineer
of Riccarton. He graduated
from the Canterbury Flying
School on 7 May 1918.
In the Wigram Skies
subdivision at the former
Wigram Air Force Base
where the names of the
streets are either those of
aircraft, or the names from
the original first 100 students
at the Flight School
established by Sir Henry
Wigram in 1917.
Named in 2012.
Christchurch City Libraries Page 79 of 95
8 August 2013
Settling near the Styx
River, p 89
“Road Boards”, Star,
1 March 1877, p 3
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 4 September
2012
“Obituary”, The
Press, 5 May 1923,
p 7
[Vague’s name is
wrongly spelt there
as Vogue.]
G. R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: V1
Great Britain, Royal
Aero Club
Aviators’
Certificates, 1910-
1950 as found on
www.ancestry.com
The Canterbury
(NZ) Aviation Co.
Ltd: the first one
hundred pilots