{"id":786,"date":"2008-04-10T11:17:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T16:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=786"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:24:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:24:50","slug":"imperial-pedigree-colonial-street-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/04\/10\/imperial-pedigree-colonial-street-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial pedigree: colonial street names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christopherdewolf\/1503189983\/\"><img src='http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2391\/1503189983_07eb4fa27a.jpg?v=0' alt='peel1.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had travelled more than 15,000 kilometres only to stand, once again, at the corner of <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&#038;hl=en&#038;msa=0&#038;ll=22.284093,114.154585&#038;spn=0.003003,0.005504&#038;z=18&#038;msid=113626023156661256108.00044a8734003cdf6c446\">Peel and Wellington<\/a>. Of course, it wasn&#8217;t the same <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&#038;hl=en&#038;msa=0&#038;ll=45.493638,-73.555773&#038;spn=0.00455,0.011008&#038;z=17&#038;msid=113626023156661256108.00044a873c63017c1bed1\">Peel and Wellington<\/a> as back home &#8212; with a shared colonial past, it shouldn&#8217;t be surprising to find some similar street names in both Montreal and Hong Kong. <\/p>\n<p>In Montreal, Peel and Wellington finds itself in the heart of Griffintown, a neighbourhood that was once a centre of industry and working-class Irish life. In Hong Kong, it sits in the middle of a busy market district in Central, an area that was once part of Victoria City, Britain&#8217;s nineteenth-century foothold in South China. It seems somehow appropriate that, even halfway across the world from one another, Peel Street and Wellington Street intersect. Peel was named after Robert Peel, a Tory who first elected to Parliament in a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rotten_borough\">rotten borough<\/a>&#8221; home to just 24 easily-bribed voters, and who served twice as Prime Minister, from 1834-35 and 1841-46. Wellington Street was named after Peel&#8217;s longtime ally, the Duke of Wellington, another two-time Prime Minister who served one of his terms immediately after Peel. <\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of other names that will ring familiar to anyone who has spent time in a former outpost of the British Empire: Elgin, Dalhousie, Drake, Drummond, Granville, Argyle. Like shadows left behind by a passing giant, they testify to a kind of globalization that began before the term even existed. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christopherdewolf\/2400417739\/\"><img src='http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3264\/2400417739_75df81a121.jpg?v=0' alt='peel3.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanphoto.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/10\/imperial-pedigree\/\">Crossposted from Urbanphoto<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had travelled more than 15,000 kilometres only to stand, once again, at the corner of Peel and Wellington. Of course, it wasn&#8217;t the same Peel and Wellington as back home &#8212; with a shared colonial past, it shouldn&#8217;t be surprising to find some similar street names in both Montreal and Hong Kong. In Montreal,<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/04\/10\/imperial-pedigree-colonial-street-names\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Imperial pedigree: colonial street names&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7837,7839],"tags":[48,2188,36,14,125,18,1251,2190,2189,1267,2187,409],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-neighbourhoods","tag-downtown","tag-granville","tag-griffintown","tag-historical","tag-montreal","tag-other-cities","tag-prime-minister","tag-robert-peel","tag-south-china","tag-united-kingdom","tag-victoria-city","tag-wellington"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Imperial pedigree: colonial street names - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/04\/10\/imperial-pedigree-colonial-street-names\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Imperial pedigree: colonial street names - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I had travelled more than 15,000 kilometres only to stand, once again, at the corner of Peel and Wellington. 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