Alberni Street

 

1800 Block – 1900 Block – 2000 Block – Georgia Street – Alberni Street – Robson Street – Detail from Vancouver City Archives – Van Sc P15 – Vancouver B C – looking east from Lost Lagoon; about 1931; http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/vancouver-b-c-from-air-looking-east-from-lost-lagoon;rad

 

Alberni Street runs between Robson Street and Georgia Street, from Burrard Street to the foot of Chilco Street near Lost Lagoon.

 

1800 Block Alberni Street – Detail from Goad’s Atlas of the city of Vancouver – 1912 – Vol 1 – Plate 7 – Coal Harbour to Barclay Street and Cardero Street to Stanley Park.

 

1900 Block Alberni Street – Detail from Goad’s Atlas of the city of Vancouver – 1912 – Vol 1 – Plate 7 – Coal Harbour to Barclay Street and Cardero Street to Stanley Park

 

1800 block of Alberni Street

1900 block of Alberni Street

 

 

Source of name

This is one of the streets that Lauchlan Hamilton named after features on a Pacific Coast admiralty chart.

Alberni Street was named after the Alberni Canal on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Elizabeth Walker, Street Names of Vancouver, 1999, p. 4;

Richard Edward Allen, A Pictorial History of Vancouver: Book 1: Origin of Street and Place Names, 1982, p. 95.

Alberni Canal was named after Don Pedro de Alberni [Wikipedia article: Pedro de Alberni], who was with Francisco de Eliza’s expedition to Nootka Sound in 1790. [Wikipedia article: Francisco de Eliza].