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Originally Posted by myuglyface
I recall being told about numbered Avenues in Winnipeg that were changed to named Avenues at some point. I am mostly interested in where 4th Avenue N. and 10th Ave N. would have been and when the change occurred.
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I don't know exactly, but Notre Dame was known as Central Avenue and so perhaps 4th Avenue would have been 4 north of Notre Dame and 10th 10 north. If I recall correctly, the numbering was a bright idea of City Council and lasted for a couple of years in the early 1890s. When it failed to gain popular acceptance, the City officially returned the original names to the streets, which are the names we know them by now. It is difficult to find references to this street numbering system since most people didn't pay it any attention and it didn't last very long. I would certainly like to find a city map that showed the numbering, but I have never seen any such thing.