Esther Short Park in the heart of the city, named after a redoubtable Vancouver pioneer, is the oldest public park in the Northwest. And then there's B.C. Because we then have streets named for people because of their connection to George Vancouver, whether for his shipmates (Broughton Street), his friends (Point Grey Road), or other explorers he met (Quadra Street). politicians. But when it comes to our natural heritage — that great commonwealth of green and blue that one sees on all the postcards — the ability to use the density bonusing as a preservation tool begins to run into difficulty. For a council that has been accused of shooting before it aims, both exhibit a surprising level of caution. [more]. Maple, Larch, Ash, Arbutus and others cross a number of neighbourhoods in their north-south journey across the city. The suburb next door is Gordon. Under the category of "people who were involved in defining how the city was built," are a number of engineers or surveyors who worked for either railways or various levels of governments. Two that aren’t named for people, but are worth highlighting. Names pulled at random from the British Admiralty Registry from the Battle of Trafalgar, trees, then provinces. After a few weeks I was happy to find out there was a plum tree right outside my window. Over the years, density bonusing has acted as an important tool in Vancouver’s city-building methodology. But Greer refused to leave the land, so the government sent a sheriff to arrest him. Perhaps all records, like trees, eventually fall – making it all the more important for us to appreciate them while they still stand. After writing down key descriptors for each street, we then separated them into categories, using the category we thought most applicable. Elm, Birch, Cypress don't always progress in alphabetic order? Vancouver has a lovely tradition of streets named after trees. The street tree dataset includes a listing of public trees on boulevards in the City of Vancouver and provides data on tree coordinates, species and other related characteristics. This was 1963 and we moved into Kitsilano. Some of these street names are now controversial, because of their policies towards Indigenous people or immigrants. Their lives and professional backgrounds were varied: from Frank Price, a janitor at a local school, to F.M. With that out of the way, here are the origins all 651 streets in Vancouver. ... Fruit Valley Road–Because of the large number of orchard trees planted in this neighborhood in the late 1800s, residents named the area Fruit Valley. “We think it is a huge waste of trees and that green area. And of the six streets in the far northeast of the city named for universities, four are also in England (Yale and McGill streets being the two outliers). agreed to put forward the name “Bonsai Street” for Council approval. Name Name Cultivar (in FT) (in FT) Shape Features/Considerations Tolerant Utilities Type ... City of Vancouver Street Tree Selection. They are native to British Columbia. The name 'Red Forest' comes from the ginger brown colour of the pine trees after they died following the absorption of high levels of radiation. One of the area's first non-native settlers, Sam Greer, lived on Kitsilano Beach from 1882 until 1890. For info on Victoria's flowering street trees, see the archived post here. The Garry Oak is a medium sized tree with thick dark grey bark and a round canopy. Tilly Jean Rolston is probably best known as the first women in Canada to become a cabinet minister with a portfolio, becoming B.C. The curving streets of First Shaughnessy were laid out to follow the natural slope of the land, giving lots ideal views, in contrast to most of Vancouver’s simple grid plan. First draw in the Great Trees contest takes place Monday. This particular tree is located along the west sidewalk as you approach the Burrard Bridge coming from Cornwall. Not only that, our streets were very much named after any/everything people could when the city plan was drafted. These include a few B.C. Snap! Branches swept the ground and tickled my skin as I played with them. Although the names certainly do not reflect a multicultural population — and Vancouver has for long received criticism for that. The value of the bonus was estimated at about $4 million. But we’re not done with Europeans quite yet. 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