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Old Posted Oct 31, 2018, 1:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Andy6 View Post

I wonder if Charlotte, Nena and Margaretta were changed all at once and why it went no further.
There's this this map of the city from 1881, which shows the alphabetized street name pattern ending at "P" - Penelope (now Pearl St.), then giving up and going to Emily St. I guess the McDermots and Bannatynes (whose estates these streets were created on) didn't have any female family members with names starting with "Q" and that was that.

(This reminds of that persistent urban legend that Winnipeg's old feminine street names were named after various mayor's and aldermen's favourite prostitutes. Which is a little insulting to the women of the Logan, Ross, Bannatyne, and McDermot families for whom these streets were actually named after.)
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