Marrion Street: photos of an Oak Bay street that disappeared
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Marrion Street, first laid out as Prospect Road (not to be confused with Prospect Place) in the early 1890s, was a short road extending southeast from the junction of Fort x Foul Bay. Its first residents were Alfred Howell & family. It was renamed in 1910/11 for Robert Marrion, a settler prior to 1906. It’s one of few (the only?) Oak Bay streets to have disappeared; all properties were purchased by the municipality in the 1970s to develop the Oak Bay Recreation Centre on Bee St. The street’s name is perpetuated in Marrion Village seniors' housing complex.
These photos of houses on Marrion St were taken for one of the municipal Finance Department’s series of appraisal cards (OBA CR 140 AC-L), 1950s-1970s. In most cases they are the only photos in the Archives of these houses. A notable exception is the Howell house (no number as Prospect Road, first numbered 1940 Marrion, later renumbered 2064 Marrion), which appears in several of resident Bert Howell's photos (OBA PR 198).
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Parts of this display were mounted in the exterior (parking lot) and Archives corridor display cases at Municipal Hall in October 2022.
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These images were created in the course of District business by District staff after 1948, and remain in copyright (c) The Corporation of the District of Oak Bay.
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- Post by Anna Sander, 6 October 2022.
To cite: Sander, Anna. (2022, October). 'Marrion Street: photos of an Oak Bay street that disappeared.' [Blog post]. District of Oak Bay, Archives. Retrieved from https://connect.oakbay.ca/archives/news_feed/marrion-street-photos-of-an-oak-bay-stree-that-disappeared [date accessed].
