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[Bingo]

^ That sounds right, actually.

 

They started with numbers until the pioneers started croaking, and then they named the streets in their memory so they could walk all over them.

[todd]

Changing to a more appealing street name would increase property values by 4%*

 

* source: VHF Random Statistic Generator

 

That statistic generator is awesome* and you can find the statistic needed 100%* of the time, and correct 101%* of the time.

 

* source: VHF Random Statistic Generator

[VicHockeyFan]

What do you guys think of this.

 

Somehow combining Google Maps with a crowd-sourced ability to edit individual homes with the family name of people that lived there, and the approximate years they lived there.

 

So you'd roll your cursor over the house you lived in as a kid, and it would say...

 

Smith - 1946 - 1958

Rogers - 1958 - 1972

? - 1972 - 1977 (can you fill in the blank?)

Emery - 1977 - 1986

 

I think a guy/gal might spend a few hours combing the old neighbourhood for memories.  And just a last name and historical date (you could maybe just let it go only 10+ years back etc.) does not seem too privacy-breachy.

 

 

[lanforod]

Perhaps, if you don't allow existing ones. Plenty of people still living in the same house 20 years or more.

[VicHockeyFan]

Perhaps, if you don't allow existing ones. Plenty of people still living in the same house 20 years or more.

 

The way it's crowd-sourced makes it fairly inaccurate or in doubt anyway.  I'm sure Canada 411 would pick up more info on the long-timers than this might.

[Bingo]

 

CHEK Point Poll: Should historic racially insensitive street names be changed?

http://www.cheknews....changed-261475/

 

Historic names should be left alone, and it is insensitive to name streets after long standing Vibrant Victoria members.

 

[Bingo]

Especially if there is no exit.

[Nparker]

Especially if there is no exit.

I think all of the "No Exit" signs should be changed as these are insensitive to, and possibly an infringement on, the rights of Jean-Paul Sartre.

[VicHockeyFan]

CFAX says Trutch Street will be re-named on Tuesday.

[Nparker]

CFAX says Trutch Street will be re-named on Tuesday.

Why?

[VicHockeyFan]

Why?

 

I think he shared a college dorm room with Harvey Weinstein.   Seriously though, ol' Trutch was tough on the natives, I guess.  

Edited by VicHockeyFan, 12 January 2018 - 04:07 PM.

[Jackerbie]

Why?

 

Old dead white guy who shared the mindset of many other old dead white guys back in the day. http://www.cbc.ca/ne...ernor-1.1205660

[Nparker]

I assume this is the person for whom the street was named:

The Hon. Sir Joseph William Trutch (1826-1904), a civil engineer, arrived in San Francisco, CA, in 1849 from England. He practised civil engineering there and in Oregon, where he married Julia Elizabeth Hyde (c.1827-1895) in 1855. They moved to Michigan briefly and came to Victoria in 1859. Trutch was elected to the Vancouver Island Legislative Assembly in 1862, soon after completing this villa. He was appointed Surveyor-General for BC in 1864 and in the same year loaned the house to Governor A.E. Kennedy as Government House while Cary Castle was being remodeled. At 45, Trutch was appointed the first Lieutenant-Governor of the province in 1871 and in 1889 was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Trutch lived with Julia, his mother Charlotte Hannah Trutch (c.1801-1877), and his sister Caroline (c.1831-1899), who married Peter O’Reilly in 1863. Julia died of stomach cancer in 1895 and Trutch remained in this house until about 1900 when he returned to England. They had no children. Trutch was seriously injured when thrown from a dog cart, and he succumbed to those injuries in 1904.

https://victoriaheri.../Trutch601.html

 

[Nparker]

Old dead white guy who shared the mindset of many other old dead white guys back in the day...

There's nothing quite as charming as revisionist history. Changing the street name will certainly undo all the wrongs he may have done more than a century ago.

Edited by Nparker, 12 January 2018 - 04:07 PM.

[VicHockeyFan]

There's nothing quite as charming as revisionist history. Changing the street name will certainly undo all the wrongs he may have done more than a century ago.

 

Ya, and I also cannot understand why my Hitler™ line of BBQs and accessories never took off.  When Napoleon does so well.

Edited by VicHockeyFan, 12 January 2018 - 04:10 PM.

[Nparker]

Ya, and I also cannot understand why my Hitler™ line of BBQs and accessories never took off...

They probably would have done better as ovens. Ouch! 

[Mike K.]

Seriously?

[Jackerbie]

Seriously?

 

Seriously they're renaming the street, or seriously Nparker is making Holocaust jokes?

[Mike K.]

The latter.

I think we all realize the fellas don’t mean any harm, though.

So what’s the new name going to be?

[Nparker]

...So what’s the new name going to be?

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