Second Avenue


1906 May – The Board recommended that Second Avenue be opened from Cotton to Woodland for $300. A work order was issued for clearing and grading on 21st May and the work was completed by 7th November. i

1906 September — “2nd Avenue is to be cleared.”ii

1906 October – A 3-plank sidewalk was laid on the south side of 2nd Avenue between Woodland and McLean Drives. The work was completed on 9th January 1907. Also in October the chain gang was ordered to cut a trail to make 2nd Avenue “passable” from Clark Drive to one block east. iii

1907 August — The Grandview Progress Association unanimously passed a resolution “that the Council be urged to open … 2nd Avenue east from Park Drive to Victoria Drive.” Another 13 residents wrote to the Board about “the urgent necessity of 2nd Avenue from Park Drive to Victoria Drive being opened. There is already one building in course of erection in the said locality and other owners are preparing to build but experience difficulty owing to the street not now being open.” iv

J.H. Brown wrote to the Board of Works: “As I am about to commence building on lot 15 Block 144b facing 2nd Avenue Grand View would like to have street cleared. If this cannot be done at present would like to have stumps blasted close to said lot.” 1

1907 October – A trail was cut along Second Avenue from Park Drive to Lakewood. The work was completed on 25th November. v

1909 January – Stumps were cleared at 2nd Avenue and Lakewood. vi

1909 February – Second Avenue was cleared and graded from Victoria Drive to Lakewood. The work was completed on 12th June. vii

1909 September – A sewer was laid along 2nd Avenue from Park Drive to a point 530’ east. Bourgoyne was the foreman and the work was completed by 30th September. viii

1912 April – 6’ concrete sidewalk proposed for both sides of 2nd Avenue from Victoria Drive to Woodland Drive at a cost of $5,181.00 with the city paying $548.13.ix

1912 May – The following houses on 2nd Avenue received their sewer permits this month: 1849 (R. Thompson) and 1857 (M. Russell).x

1912 June – 6’ concrete sidewalk is proposed for the south side of 2nd Avenue from Victoria Drive to Lakewood Drive at a cost of $1,305.00 with the city paying $131.85.xi

1913 June – 6’ concrete sidewalk on both sides of 2nd Avenue between Victoria Drive and Woodland Drive at a cost of $5,287.44 with the city paying $399.08. xii

i  Board of Works Minutes, 5 May 1906, CVA, MCR-36 Roll 2; WO 772, 21 May 1906, CVA, Series 356, Record of Work Orders 1906-1910, 128-B-2

ii  J.J. Miller in World 8 Sep 1906, p.4

iii  WO 1120, 26 Oct 1906, 1127, 30 Oct 1906, CVA, Series 356, Record of Work Orders 1906-1910, 128-B-2

iv  Grandview Progress Association to Board of Works dated 5 Aug 1907, CVA, Series 342, Board of Works, Letters Reported 27th Aug 1907, 129-A-5 File 16; Petition to Board of Works dated 30 Aug 1907, CVA, Series 342, Board of Works, Letters Reported 24th Sep 1907, 129-A-5 File 18

1  J.H. Brown to Board of Works dated 18 Aug 1907, CVA, Series 342, Board of Works, Letters Reported 10 Sep 1907, 129-A-5 File 17

v  WO 1665, 16 Oct 1907, CVA, Series 356, Record of Work Orders 1906-1910, 128-B-2

vi  WO 2735, 19 Jan 1909, CVA, Series 356, Record of Work Orders 1906-1910, 128-B-2

vii  WO 2806, 20 Feb 1909, CVA, Series 356, Record of Work Orders 1906-1910, 128-B-2

viii   O 3450, 9 Sep 1909, CVA, Series 356, Record of Work Orders 1906-1910, 128-B-2

ix  Schedule published 2 Apr 1912, CVA, Series 356, Proposed Street Improvements, 134-A-2 File 1

x  Sewer Dept. Register of Permits, CVA, Series 357, 134-A-2,3

xi  Schedule published 15 Jun 1912, CVA, Series 356, Proposed Street Improvements, 134-A-2 File 1

xii  Shedule published 6 June 1913, CVA, Series 356, Proposed Street Improvements, 134-A-2 File 1