Gilford Street

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Gilford Street runs between English Bay and Coal Harbour.

 

Source of name

Gilford Street is named after Gilford Island.

This is one of the streets that Lauchlan Hamilton named after features on a Pacific Coast admiralty chart. Gilford Island was named after Captain Richard James Meade, who later became Viscount Gilford, and who was captain of the HMS Tribune, which served on the Pacific coast from 1862 to 1864.

 

Sources

Biography of Viscount Gilford (Richard James Meade) R.N.; Richard Meade, 4th Earl of Clanwilliam.

John T. Walbran, British Columbia Coast Names: Their Origin and History, Ottawa, Government Printing Bureau, 1909, page 207 [reprinted: Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., 1971].

Elizabeth Walker, Street Names of Vancouver, 1999, pp. 46-47.

 

These links lead to individual houses and other buildings.

 

678 Gilford Street

744 Gilford Street

746 Gilford Street

748 Gilford Street

786 Gilford Street

990 Gilford Street

1000 Gilford Street

1019 Gilford Street

1025 Gilford Street

1034 Gilford Street

1050 Gilford Street

1100 Gilford Street

1101 Gilford Street

1102 Gilford Street

1154 Gilford Street