Christchurch street names T - V - Christchurch City Libraries

Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Vancouver
Crescent
Former
name
Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further
information
Named after
Vancouver, a
city located on
the west coast of
British Columbia
in Canada.
Wainoni One of a number of streets in
a subdivision between
Ottawa Road, Pages Road
and Cuffs Road given
Canadian place names.
Named because Canadian
engineers and workers lived
in the area while working for
Henry J. Kaiser Co of USA
and building the Lyttelton
road tunnel. Houses were
built for them by Fletcher
Construction. After the
tunnel was opened in 1964,
the Canadians went home
and their houses were sold to
locals.
Another suggestion is that
the streets were named
because they were near
Ottawa Road.
Named in 1959.
First appears in street
directories in 1962.
Christchurch City Libraries Page 82 of 95
8 August 2013
Baffin
Street,
Huron
Street,
Niagara
Street,
Ontario
Place,
Quebec
Place and
Winnipeg
Place. Also
Ottawa
Road.
“Chester Street West
or Cranmer
Terrace?”, The Press,
28 April 1959, p 7
Information supplied
in 2005 by Tim
Baker in an interview
with Margaret
Harper.
“Tunnel’s first blast
celebrated”, The
Press, 22 July 2011,
p A7