Welcome to my April 2017 Great and Powerful 2017 Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

Today, U is for Huron Street (sure it is!)!

Here is a Google map showing where Huron Street is located in James Bay.

What I could find out about Huron Street:

Huron Street doesn’t really go anywhere.  It starts at Dallas and Erie, runs down towards the water, and ends.  And there are no heritage houses on Huron.  In fact, there are no houses at all – just condos.  The Canadian Coast Guard, however, has a Regional Operations Centre (http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/e0003922) on Huron.

I don’t know how old Huron Street is – I suspect it dates from the establishment of the Coast Guard Centre, but that’s just a guess.

Here are some pictures I took of Huron Street.

Here we are.

The Coast Guard sign at the entrance to Huron.  Well, close to the entrance…

The view down Huron from Dallas.

One of several waterfalls at the condo complex.

I can’t go any further – that’s Coast Guard territory!

And, looking back up towards Dallas.

What else do you want to know about Huron Street?  Ask away, and I will see what I can find out for you!

Thanks for visiting letter U of my A to Z Challenge post of 2017.  You can find more I posts at http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/2017/04/atozchallenge-4-25-2017-letter-u.html.  Stay tuned for V is for... tomorrow!!

Welcome to my April 2017 Great and Powerful 2017 Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

Today, T is for Toronto Street!

Here is a Google map showing where Toronto Street is located in James Bay.

What I could find out about Toronto Street:

Toronto Street, one of the older streets in James Bay, runs, diagonally, from Douglas at the park to Menzies Street.   It’s kind of a shortcut for us if we are walking home from downtown, because it’s a diagonal walk.

According to http://www.victoriaheritagefoundation.ca/Neighbourhoods/jamesbayhistory.html:

“James Bay’s earliest subdivision streets were named after places in eastern North America that were familiar to the HBC officers: Superior, Huron, Michigan, Belleville, Niagara, Ontario, Kingston, Montreal, Toronto, Oswego, Erie and Quebec. ”

Today, it’s perhaps not the most interesting street in James Bay (it’s lost a lot of its older homes), but there are still some heritage houses on Toronto.

• 526 Toronto Street: http://www.victoriaheritagefoundation.ca/HReg/JamesB/Toronto526.html
• 588 Toronto Street: http://www.victoriaheritagefoundation.ca/HReg/JamesB/Toronto588.html
• 589 Toronto Street: http://www.victoriaheritagefoundation.ca/HReg/JamesB/Toronto589.html
• 601 Toronto Street: http://www.victoriaheritagefoundation.ca/HReg/JamesB/Toronto601.html
• 603 Toronto Street: http://www.victoriaheritagefoundation.ca/HReg/JamesB/Toronto603.html
• 609 Toronto Street: http://www.victoriaheritagefoundation.ca/HReg/JamesB/Toronto609.html

Also of interest, the Carriage House B&B is on Toronto Street (http://www.carriagehousebandb.ca/), just off Government Street.  And the James Bay Inn (http://www.jamesbayinn.com/) is at the corner of Government and Toronto.

Here are some pictures I took of Toronto Street.

The Douglas Street end

The park and playground attached to SouthPark School

The way down to Government.

And now, here we are at Government.

The Carriage House B&B

And the James Bay Inn.

And the way towards Menzies.

The end of Toronto Street.

What else do you want to know about Toronto Street?  Ask away, and I will see what I can find out for you!

Thanks for visiting letter T of my A to Z Challenge post of 2017.  You can find more I posts at http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/2017/04/atozchallenge-4-24-2017-letter-t.html.  Stay tuned for U is for... tomorrow!!