Talk:Arterial roads in Whitehorse, Yukon
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Subdivision street names
[edit]Somewhere, I'd like to note the themes of subdivision street names.
Riverdale - rivers in the Yukon - very short streets built in recent times are named after creeks
Porter Creek - types of trees, with the exception of the numbered streets and Clyde Wann Road
Takhini - military battlefields of the 2nd and 1st World Wars
Hillcrest - this user is uncertain as to the theme - perhaps trails? The names are Dalton Trail, Park Lane, Kluane Cres, Summit Road, Sunset Dr, Chalet Cres, Roundel Road.
Crestview - lakes
Wolf Creek, McIntyre, Granger - pioneer Yukoners, many also honoured on downtown street names
Marwell - minerals
Arkell and Logan - birds
Copper Ridge - gemstones
Cowley Creek - fish
Pine Ridge - mountains
Hidden Valley - some are named after berries, others are named after persons
GBC (talk) 03:07, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Lobird landmark
[edit]I honestly did not know how to include this tidbit of Cold War history for Whitehorse. Since the "eavesdropping station" was in Lobird, and since Lobird will soon be accessed by Hamilton Boulevard instead of two upgraded haul trails, I thought it best to put it in here.
Lobird was developed in the late 1960s, but the developer decided that the existing long access road, Ice Lake Road, was in terrible condition, so he graded his own roadway from a road that accessed Maclean Lake. During the 1990s, the road was regraded and given a chip-seal surface, and very late in the decade, official names were given for MacLean Lake Road and Lobird Road, and civic addresses given for the park and Radar Apartments.
Ice Lake Road, put in by the military, remained open, though unmaintained, and a fire truck got stuck along it in the late 1990s while trying to respond to a fire call during the winter. GBC (talk) 04:44, 13 August 2008 (UTC)