Weird road names are as quintessentially Nanaimo as bathtub races and town's eponymous dessert bars.
"Folks usually suppose I am giving a pretend deal with out," says Manuela Herzig, who lives on Twiggly Wiggly Highway.
That is only a few blocks from Jingle Pot Highway.
Throughout city, there's Bob O Hyperlink Approach and Bergen-Op-Zoom Drive, to not point out Dingle Bingle Hill Highway.
There is not any official file for the city with essentially the most unusually named streets per capita, but when there have been, Nanaimo would absolutely take the crown.
"We do not thoughts being primary," says Mayor Leonard Krog, including that it isn't essential to know the historical past behind the unusual road names with a purpose to get pleasure from them.
"It simply sounds good," Krog says. "It is like a politician's speech. If it sounds good, it would not matter what the content material is."
In fact, because the mayor, Krog does know the origins of many, if not all the weird street names within the metropolis.
And for these inquisitive about studying extra, the present exhibit within the Nanaimo Museum's group gallery showcases a number of the metropolis's stranger streets.
Ready by historical past college students at Vancouver Island College, "The Phrase on the Avenue: Roads that Constructed Nanaimo" is on show till June 25.
Jingle Pot Highway, in line with the exhibit, is called for a device utilized by coal miners. A "jingle pot" was a pot with a number of stones in it, hooked up to a rope. Miners pulled on the rope to make the pot make noise after they wished to sign that it was time to begin hoisting carts stuffed with coal out of the mine.
Bergen-Op-Zoom Drive will get its identify from a city within the Netherlands that's dwelling to a Canadian battle cemetery. A whole lot of Canadian troopers who died through the Second World Warfare are buried there.
And Twiggly Wiggly Highway? That is named for former mayor Frank Ney's daughter Monique, who had the nickname "Twiggy." Ney was a residential land developer earlier than he grew to become mayor, and that position afforded him the chance to call most of the metropolis's streets.
Regardless of the confusion it generally causes, Herzig tells CTV Information she would not change her road's identify to one thing extra regular.
"I feel it is distinctive," she says.
With information from CTV Information Vancouver Island's Jordan Cunningham and Andrew Garland
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