Street Names: A Selection of Imagery

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I've written the occasional entry for Spacing Ottawa on the subject of street names, illustrating those entries with photographic imagery of the streets whose names were under discussion. Owing to inspiration from a friend, let me share some of that imagery again here. Some weirder, some more entertaining than others, others in need of a change.

In the same spirit as Toronto's Avenue Road, we have on the eastern edge of Centretown, also known as the Golden Triangle in between the Rideau Canal and Elgin Street, we have...the Driveway:



We have streets named for nations, foreign and domestic. Norway, for one example of the foreign...



For our provinces as decided by the federal government:



Our better-known artists are represented, too, among them the photographer Yusuf Karsh:



And a few others you may have heard of in relation to Canada:



Artists and entertainers from elsewhere, too:



Fictional characters of various origins:






Canada's first female-identifying doctor:



A revolutionary and a doctor who tried to save him from the consequences of his actions:



And there are more to be seen on my Flickr account...

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Yeah. We've got imperialist relics and British-supremacist crap all over town, but we've also got this, right?