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britishcolumbia_portclements
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Settlement Name
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Port Clements
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Has Policy?
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No
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Place Name Tools
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In our community there has been a pattern to officially name streets/roads after types of trees (Spruce Street, Alder Avenue, etc) or after family names of people who lived in the first houses on the road (Ryland Road, Tingley Street, etc). I think the tree names come about from our history as a logging community, which is still a dominant industry in our community.
Typically, the naming of municipal property like parks has been more about their function/purpose or features such as Millennium Memorial Park (built to celebrate the millennium, 2000, as well as a memorial to WWI and WWII soldiers and its where we hold our Remembrance Day service), Sunset Park (to highlight the view from the trails, and we are known for our sunsets, so to emphasize that feature), and the Community Park being the first park built for the community’s enjoyment. Rainbow Wharf was named after a call-out to the community for a name, and I think a referendum was held to make the selection. The approach seems to be case-by-case basis, and not all our places/infrastructure have official names (ex. our sewer lagoon is just the sewer lagoon, the public works yard, is just the public works yard, etc). Often the default is “Port Clements X” like our Port Clements Community Hall, and we just recently renamed the Port Clements Firehall to the Craig Beachy Memorial Firehall (after our late Fire Chief after a request from a resident) – the full name of the millennium park is Port Clements Millennium Memorial Park, and community park is the Port Clements Community Park.
Our community’s name, Port Clements, was due to a deal with the local MP, Herb Clements, when the town had to be renamed (as Queenstown was taken), that in exchange for naming the community after him a federal wharf would be built in the community (our Rainbow Wharf). I believe such arrangements involving federal MPS (and provincial government levels) are now illegal, but this occurred back in 1914.
There is also a habit of referring to buildings after the property owners (ex. Abfam Apartments), but that is colloquial references, not official place naming by the Village.
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Contact Info
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deputy@portclements.ca
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Policy Score
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0
