We are all familiar with terms like street, avenue and crescent, but across the country there are apparently 165 different words to identify the roads we call home. A friend who works on the back-end of a federal party website recently forwarded this list (with some of his favs highlighted), gleaned from a drop-down menu used for voters to identify their riding. Just for fun, here they are:
Abbey
Access
Acres
Aire
Allée
Alley
Autoroute
Avenue
Barrage
Bay
Beach
Bend
Bloc
Block
Boulevard
Bourg
Brook
By-pass
Byway
Campus
Cape
Carré
Carrefour
Centre
Cercle
Chase
Chemin
Circle
Circuit
Close
Common
Concession
Corners
Côte
Cour
Cours
Court
Cove
Crescent
Crest
Croft
Croissant
Crossing
Crossroads
Cul-de-sac
Dale
Dell
Desserte
Diversion
Downs
Drive
Droit de passage
Échangeur
End
Esplanade
Estates
Expressway
Extension
Farm
Field
Forest
Forest Service Road
Freeway
Front
Gardens
Gate
Glade
Glen
Green
Grounds
Grove
Harbour
Haven
Heath
Heights
Highlands
Highway
Hill
Hollow
Île
Impasse
Inlet
Island
Key
Knoll
Landing
Lane
Laneway
Limits
Line
Link
Lookout
Loop
Mall
Manor
Maze
Meadow
Mews
Montée
Moor
Mount
Mountain
Orchard
Parade
Parc
Park
Parkway
Passage
Path
Pathway
Peak
Pines
Place
Plateau
Plaza
Point
Pointe
Port
Private
Promenade
Quai
Quay
Ramp
Rang
Range
Reach
Ridge
Right of way
Rise
Road
Rond point
Route
Row
Rue
Ruelle
Ruisseau
Run
Section
Sentier
Sideroad
Square
Street
Stroll
Subdivision
Terrace
Terrasse
Thicket
Towers
Townline
Trace
Trail
Trunk
Turnabout
Vale
Via
View
Village
Villas
Vista
Voie
Walk
Way
Wharf
Wood
Wynd
Which makes me wonder whether we may simply make up more as we go along?
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When I first moved to Quebec, a friend said we were going to “Promenade Saint-Bruno” – and I assumed that he was talking about a stroll on a trail… it took me a couple of years to work out that it’s the Canadian French translation for “Parkway” !
At one time another appellation might have been be added to this already-lengthly and intriguing list would be ‘Turnpike’.
‘At one time a turnpike road ran between Montreal and La Chine’ as in the following.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=FuI-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&dq=turnpike+canada&source=bl&ots=3xqzaEBYdh&sig=_kj-GoZ7tSdFWduwnz52s-gFtP8&hl=en&ei=1ZmoTa3pBIjd0QHc4qX5CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ6AEwADge#v=onepage&q=turnpike%20canada&f=false
Herein are describe two ways to get to La Chine from Montreal.
The ‘Turnpike’, I am assuming, is now St. James/Upper Lachine/St. Jacques/Avon/St. Joseph west down past the south end of Westminster into Ville St. Pierre and Lachine.
The river-edge route would now be along LaSalle Blvd., and was once known as Lower Lachine Rd.
At one time Autobus 106 Upper Lachine circulated to Elmhurst connecting with Route 90 Lachine on the northeast corner of Elmhurst and Harley by the CPR Montreal West Station.
Once the railways arrived, overpasses were built to conduct road traffic safely and without delay.
A one-time west end feature on St. Joseph was what was known as the ‘S-Bridge’ where it crossed the CNR and the Montreal Tramways Route 91 to Lachine.
Then-new in the forties 2/17 was crossed at a busy intersection with traffic lights and wended up in a ‘S’ pattern onto an open-girder bridge over the two railways, a sidewalk outside the girders for pedestrians.
As kids we would ride our bikes down to the S Bridge and stand on the west sidewalk and watch CNR trains, still with steam locomotives, and streetcars pass by below.
View looking towards Lachine from the S Bridge.
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2893814030053581592VLBwvx
To the left in the photo an automobile can be seen climbing up to the bridge on the S on the Lachine side.
Behind the automobile on the flat there were two stone monuments, one on each side of the road declaiming Lachine.
Google ground-level view of the approximate location of the S Bridge.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=45.440742,-73.651314&spn=0,0.030427&z=15&layer=c&cbll=45.440849,-73.651302&panoid=c4eFmM6F7eL_QTMtGXMl5w&cbp=12,276.87,,0,-10.18
Thank You.