B.C. Electric Railway open car operating on Denman Street running to English Bay, 1900s; Vancouver City Archives, CVA 677-83; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/b-c-electric-railway-open-car-operating-on-denman-street-running-to-english-bay.
Goad’s Atlas of the city of Vancouver – 1912 – Vol 1 – Plate 7 – Coal Harbour to Barclay Street and Cardero Street to Stanley Park.
Denman Street, between Robson Street and Haro 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.
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Denman Street between Barclay Street and Nelson Street – detail from Goad’s Atlas of the city of Vancouver – 1912 – Vol 1 – Plate 8 – Barclay Street to English Bay and Cardero Street to Stanley Park.
Denman Street – between Nelson Street and Comox Street – Detail from Goad’s Atlas of the city of Vancouver – 1912 – Vol 1 – Plate 8 – Barclay Street to English Bay and Cardero Street to Stanley Park.
Denman Street – between Nelson Street and Comox Street – Detail from Goad’s Atlas of the city of Vancouver – 1912 – Vol 1 – Plate 8 – Barclay Street to English Bay and Cardero Street to Stanley Park.
1100 Block Denman Street – detail from Goad’s Atlas of the city of Vancouver – 1912 – Vol 1 – Plate 8 – Barclay Street to English Bay and Cardero Street to Stanley Park.
Denman Street runs from English Bay to Coal Harbour. It is a main thoroughfare in the West End.
Source of name
This is one of the streets that Lauchlan Hamilton named after features on a Pacific Coast admiralty chart.
Denman Street was named after Denman Island, which in turn was named after Rear Admiral Joseph Denman (1810-1874), the commander-in-chief of the Pacific station from 1864-1866.
Elizabeth Walker, Street Names of Vancouver, 1999, p. 34.
Richard Edward Allen, A Pictorial History of Vancouver: Book 1: Origin of Street and Place Names, 1982, p. 85.
John T. Walbran, British Columbia Coast Names: Their Origin and History, Ottawa, Government Printing Bureau, 1909, page 137 [reprinted: Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., 1971].
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