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MN1141 DAUPHIN - BURROWS AVE. LOOKING SOUTH

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Notation: Interestingly enough, there is no current Burrows Avenue in Dauphin. I assume that it has been renamed, but no one I have contacted in Dauphin (City Offices, Land Titles, etc.knows anything about it. Burrows avenue is also the address for the boot makers card that I recently acquired: MN1137 DAUPHIN - TOSELAND & SON - BOOTMAKERS

I found this text from the Dauphin Herald September 19, 1946: "The Dauphin Herald & Press Is Published Every Thursday by The Dauphin Herald Co. Ltd. at its office, Burrows Avenue, Dauphin, Manitoba". It was obviously one of the busy commercial streets - and nobody in Dauphin knows about it?
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wintorbos said:

Very good point. It's unusual to change the name of a major street. It is an avenue, which are numbered in Dauphin, so maybe the numbered avenues were a postwar thing or else this one had an alternative name dating from before an earlier conversion to number-names that continued to be used (as happened in Edmonton and Calgary a bit).
7 years ago

Canafornian said:

I posted this on the MHS Facebook site. Good leads for it being 2nd Ave.
7 years ago

Canafornian said:

Christy C. at the Winnipeg Library found documents that confirmed the Burrows Avenue name was still in use in the early 1960s.

The photo image of The Toseland bootmakers was also re-posted on “The Good Old Days of Dauphin” Facebook page and there was a lot of confirmation that, indeed, Burrows Avenue became 2nd Avenue.
7 years ago
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