Posted Apr 10, 2010, 5:36 PM
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Density and complexity
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Parish of St. John
Posts: 2,644
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The Henderson Directory for, I believe, 1894 has the streets numbered (with their former/present names in brackets. Notre Dame was Central Avenue, and every significantly long street to the south or north was numbered so that the further you went from Notre Dame and from Main, the higer the numbers went. Ie, Fort and Graham was First Ave. S. and 1st St. S., Corydon was 17th Ave. S., and Selkirk was 17th Ave. N.
Those shanties shown in that photo, like the shantytown at The Forks a few years earlier, were a subject of public controversy in 1883-4.
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