I shared THIS LINK to a PDF of the entire 1999 book "Street Names of Vancouver" a few years ago and to this day people still find their way to it, so I figured I'd re-post for those of you not getting to our site by way of a Google search. The book shares insight on how the names of our streets came to be from the 1870's to 1999, it was published by the Vancouver Historical Society and is made available thanks to the Vancouver Public Library and their British Columbia City Directories. Download it for free RIGHT HERE.
