Riverview Street Names History

Arnold Avenue (1893)

Formerly Louise Street 

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) an English writer of the Victorian era. 

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Ashland Avenue (1904)

A small city along the southern shore of Lake Superior. 

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Balfour Avenue (1904) 

Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930), British Prime Minister, 1902-1905, author of Balfour Declaration. 

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Baltimore Road (1927) 

Formerly Florence Street (early as 1904)

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Bartlet Avenue (1904) 

Probably after J.W. Bartlett, who came to Winnipeg in 1890 to become the western manager of the “Farmer’s Advocate” leaving a year later to become the chief clerk of the Manitoba Department of Agriculture.

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names

Pioneers and Early Citizens of Manitoba)

Brandon Avenue (1913) 

Formerly Weatherdon Avenue. 

Perhaps after Brandon, Manitoba (many streets are named after Manitoba locations.)

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Casey Street (1893)

Formerly Chesey Street (1882)

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Churchill Drive (1942.) 

After Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965), British statesman and author; Prime Minister, 1940 – 1945 and 1951 – 1955; Nobel Prize winner for literature, 1953. 

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Clare Avenue (1904)

After the grandfather of W.S. Lang. 

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Daly Street (1913)

Formerly John Street (1910)

Named after Hon. Thomas Mayne Daly (1852-1911). He was a lawyer, judge, and was the first mayor of Brandon in 1882. In 1887 he was elected M.P. member: Selkirk constituency. He served as Minister of the Interior and Minister of Indian Affairs from 1892 to 1896.

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names

Pioneers and Early Citizens of Manitoba)

Darling Street (1904)

After Frank Darling (1853-1923), elected to Royal College Architects, 1886; won King’s Gold Medal, 1915; designer of Sun Life Building, Montreal, Royal Ontario Museum and General Hospital, Toronto

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Don Avenue (1913)

Formerly Dudley Avenue (1893)

Formerly 23rd avenue south (before 1893)

Rivers named Don in Yorkshire, England; Aberdeenshire, Scotland; U.S.S.R.

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Formerly Garwood Avenue (1893)

Formerly 22nd avenue south
Would have been between Osborne on the Red and 380 Osborne.

Eccles Street (1882)

Names of an early English Settler.

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Formerly Fleet Avenue (before 1893)

Formerly 21st avenue south
Would have been south of Mulvey Avenue at the lights leading to the McDonalds and the Co-op Gas Bar. 

Fisher Street (1882)

Formerly: Park Place

A transferred family name.

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Glasgow Avenue (1913)

Formerly: Scotland Avenue (1893)

Formerly 25th avenue south 

Largest industrial city in Scotland; famed for shipbuilding on Clyde River

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Hay Street (1883)

Formerly May Street 

Edward Henry George Gunter Hay (1840-1918), a business man who left home at age 13, and eventually built his own mill in St. Andrews, and a foundry in Portage la Prairie. M.L.A, St. Andrew’s south first legislature, 1870; police magistrate, 1889; clerk of works, St. Andrew’s Locks, 1900

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names

Pioneers and Early Citizens of Manitoba)

Formerly Helen Street (1895 or before)

Formerly sat between Daly street and Cockburn St.

Jubilee Avenue (1897)

Formerly: Heatherdale Avenue (before 1895)

Commemorates the 60th anniversary (Diamond Jubilee) of the reign of Queen Victoria, in 1897.

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Maplewood Avenue (1904)

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Mable Street (1882)

A transferred feminine given name.

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

McNaughton Avenue (1942)

Named for lieutenant general A.G.L. McNaughton(1887-?), statesman, diplomant, scientist, commander, Canadian troops, World War II

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Montague Avenue (1942)

Named for local Mr. Montague, who served in both world wars

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Montgomery Avenue (1948) 

Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-?); British field marshall, World War II, deputy supreme command, NATO, 1951. 

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names.)

Formerly Moore Street (before 1895)
Formerly branched off the east end of Jubilee avenue for half a block.

Morley Avenue (1882)

Formerly Gladstone Street (before 1893)

Created by Plan No. 249.  Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Willans Morley (1880-1964) commanded the 144th battalion, 90th regiment (now Royal Winnipeg Rifles), World War I. He was Clerk of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly from 1919 to 1925.

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names.

Pioneers and Early Citizens of Manitoba)

Mulvey Avenue (1893)

Formerly 20th Avenue South (before 1893)

Named for Stewart Mulvey (1834-1908). He helped draft the province’s first education act, served as secretary-treasurer of the Winnipeg School Board, and was a member of the Board of Education of Manitoba for 11 years. In 1871-1873 he founded the newspaper, The Manitoba Liberal, which voiced his fiercely critical opinions of Louis Riel and the lieutenant gouvernor.”

(Source: The Streets of Winnipeg

Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Pioneers and Early Citizens of Manitoba)

Nassau Street (1908)

Formerly: Henry Street, 1873

An ancient duchy in West Germany

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Oakwood Avenue (1904)

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Osborne Street (1881)

Formerly: Pembina Street, as late as 1909

Lieutenant-Colonel William Osborne Smith (1831-1887), first military commandant, gave his name to the Street and to a bridge, and the Barracks of Broadway. He was a founding member of the Manitoba Club and the Manitoba Historical Society.

(Source: The Streets of Winnipeg

Pioneers and Early Citizens of Manitoba)

Togo Avenue – (1913)

Formerly: Lorette Avenue (1893)

Formerly 24th avenue south

A rural Saskatchewan town of 86 people, 800 meters west of Manitoba, named for Tōgō Heihachirō (1848-1934). Educated as a samurai, he became admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of Japan’s greatest naval heroes. At the Battle of Tsushima, he lost only three torpedo boats, while of the 36 Russian warships, only three escaped.

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names

Wikipedia: Tōgō Heihachirō)

Formerly River Street (before 1895)
Branched off the east end of Arnold for about half a block.

Wavell Avenue (1948) 

Archibald Percival, 1st Earl of Wavell (1883-1950), British field marshal; viceroy of India, 1943-47; commander-in-chief, Middle East, WWII, 1939-41. 

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names.)

Woodward Avenue (1882)

Charles Woodward (1852-1937), founder of Woodward departmental stores in Western Canada; cattle-dealer in Manitoba, 1882

(Source:  Mosaic of Winnipeg Street Names)

Resources

Hislop, M. (1912). The Streets of Winnipeg. Winnipeg: T.W. Taylor

Read it online for free HERE.

Rudnycʹkyj, J. B. (1974). Mosaic of Winnipeg street names. Winnipeg: Canadian Institute of Onomastic Sciences.

Read it online for free HERE.

Manitoba Library Association. (1971). Pioneers and early citizens of Manitoba: A dictionary of Manitoba biography from the earliest times to 1920. Winnipeg: Peguis Publishers.

Read it online for free HERE.